Thanks to a fantastic dev I met online (you know who you are – you ROCK!), I have installed the 4.0 beta firmware on my iPhone 3GS. I’ve been using it for the past couple of days and have a few first impressions about what I really like about it so far.
Folders are beautiful. I have a ton of apps and while the search function does help me get to them a little more quickly than scrolling through multiple pages of apps, I’ve longed for folders pretty much since the day the App Store opened. Apple finally implemented this and I’m loving it, though each folder can only hold a maximum of 12 apps, which is a bit disappointing. One dev pointed out to me via Twitter that this was most likely to avoid the need to scroll in the pop-up “window” that shows folder contents. This makes sense to me given Apple’s design sense but I still wouldn’t mind a little scrolling to have more than 12 apps in a folder.
Multi-tasking is handy. If you’re like me, you might get a little impatient while you wait for a web page to load and wish you could easily do something else on your iPhone at the same time.
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