iPhone OS 4.0 Event: Folder Arrives Right After Multitasking

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After introducing multitasking and showing us how safe it will be for our current and future iPhones thanks to those 7 handy APIs especially made for developers, Steve Jobs unveiled a new iPhone OS 4.0 feature today: Folder.

And may I say iPhone users will definitely want this one. How many times were you annoyed at yourself for not being able to find a particular app on that damned device? That’s right, you had too many apps and too many pages. And even if you tried to arrange them as neatly as possible, they were all a mess weren’t they?

On the computer we use Folders to group similar things together. Why not do it on the iPhone too? Well it looks like such a feature now exist and it will help you better all the apps you get from the App Store. And speaking about those apps it looks like this new feature will let you store no less than 2,160 apps on your machine!

How does it all work? Well let’s hear it from Steve:

“I want to make a folder with games in it. I have several games, so I just push my finger on an app, they start to jiggle, and I just drag one app on top of another and it instantly makes a folder. It also automatically names the folder based on the categories of these apps, or I can rename.”

“I can drag this around anywhere I want. I can have as many as I’d like. I can also put a folder in the dock.”

Basically Folders offers you Drag and Drop features, Intelligent naming and access to over 2,160 apps. Impressive! We definitely like it on paper!