And by installing all these applications I won the “congratulations, your phone stopped working” prize.
Not really. It still works ok, but it definitely slows down the more apps you install. I actually found that FreeMemory ($.99 in the iTunes store) helps, but I think all it does is load 20 MB into memory forcing other daemons out and then unloads the memory it just loaded, freeing ~20 MB. I tried loading a memory intensive app like google earth and then quitting and it does the same thing (~20 MB memory free, according to FreeMemory). It sucks when you get down to <4 MB free and FreeMemory doesn’t have enough memory to free memory.
Anyway, I tried installing my 145th app today and the iphone didn’t draw a page 10 for me to scroll to, even though it looks like it has room for 18 pages, given the dot spacing. The application store showed the new app as “INSTALLED” but I had no way to run it. When I deleted an app it didn’t show up to replace the last spot, but it did show up after I rebooted the phone.
I’m sick of the phone still taking forever to sync, apps crashing, and not being able to jailbreak, so now that I’ve hit the app display limit I think I’ll start deleting some.