Changing iPhone icons/9 page limit

Hello, I was wondering if currently there was any way to change the icons used on the iPhone like you can in OSX. Also, I've hit an app barrier at 9 pages and cannot load in anymore. Is there anyway to expand beyond this limit? There are so many cool applications at the App Store! I hate to pick and choose. Thank you for your time.

I appreciate your comments, and I suspect you are correct, Apple DID have reasons for leaving the icon limit at 9 pages. However, I disagree with your premise that those reasons are technical.
I program embedded systems for a living, and believe me, there is no TECHNICAL reason for that limit. More likely, it was the expedient thing to do to get software out the door to meet a deadline, with the justification that "we can fix it later in an update."
C'mon, how many bytes does an icon use? a few K or so? And how large are the apps those icons represent? Hundreds of k to many meg? It's not really about the number of icons that should be the limit, its how many MB of apps can you store, and that's not limited to "9 pages worth" according to the memory usage bar I see in iTunes.
I've read several comments from people along the lines of "why would you ever need more than 144 apps?!" Apparently, these people have only 2 pair of pants (why would you ever need more than two, one to wear and one to wash?!?) one pen and or pencil, one television, etc.
Let me ask you, how many songs do you have on your iPod? Pick any number, and according to that logic, I can certainly ask why in the world you would need to have that many!? I personally have almost filled my 80Gb iPod with music. Try and convince anyone that they only really need to have 50 songs, and if they want others, just "simply switch them out..." You may not remember the classic "why would anyone ever need more than 64k of ram?" argument that was made in the early 80's with some of the first "personal" computers(!)
I think you get the idea.
It's not about how many I USE, it's about how many I have with me when I'm traveling, and don't have access to my iTunes computer. It's about how many I get to choose from when I'm in the mood for a game. It's about not having to make a choice of which particular ones I think I'll want on a trip, it's having all of them available, with me, wherever I go. Isn't that kinda the point?
The good thing is that I have no doubt in a future release, Apple will update their firmware to handle as many apps as you have memory for, and maybe even give us (now, hold your breath!) FOLDERS to organize this sea of icons! Wow, what a concept!
- Kevin
(p.s. don't even get me started on the lack of copy & paste!)

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I currently have the 16GB iPhone 3G with all 9 pages full with apps and no room allowed for any other apps even though I have 10GB (yes 10GB) of free unused space remaining on my iPhone, and although I love songs and therefore have some albums stored as well as pictures and other stuff, I do prefer downloading and storing Applications, but this 9 page limit problem I'm experiencing is very frustrating.
I'm hoping there is and someone knows of an option to unlock a setting for extra pages, such as having a row of an extra 9 pages 'vertically above' the standard row AND another row of an extra 9 pages 'vertically bellow' the standard and therefore middle row.. if this is so, then I'd be over the moon (and so would my colleagues, when I show them how) because I could finally store more apps and if the option is as mentioned above then there would be a tidy structure where you are not too far away from the main home page i.e. you would never be more than 8 or 9 pages away horizontally and 1 page vertically from the main home screen.. how good would that be!
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