Maximum Of 31 Applications In BlackBerry OS?

Peter pointed out this interesting knowledgebase article that RIM recently published. The article dealt with missing icons on a BlackBerry and proposed 3 causes for the problem. The surprising part was cause number 2 which I had never heard of before:

More than 31 applications are installed on the BlackBerry smartphone. Only 31 applications can initialize at start up, including third-party and system applications. If you install more than 31 applications on the BlackBerry smartphone, some of the applications may not run.

Is it just me or is this the first you heard of an arbitrary cap on how many applications can be installed on your BlackBerry? Currently this is not a big problem since most people could not fit 31 applications on the small amount of memory available to them. On the other hand with the Bold here already with double the memory of current devices this sounds slightly ominous…

Anybody run into this 31 applications cap on your BlackBerry? I am just worried since it includes third-party AND system applications. I wonder which applications are counted towards this quota…

Check out the article at this link

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