minor update? For Sprint, their SMS app is a major battery drain, and there is supposed to be a fix coming which will most likely be going to 1.6. Unless they expect you to use laggy 3rd party SMS apps until they're ready for 2.0. But I'm new here so what do I know. Most of the info you get from sprint support is usually wrong anyway.
So with a firmware update you can't just back up your data and apps and do a restore after it's updated? You have to start from scratch and reinstall everything from scratch? I was actually annoyed when I switched out my Hero that my market account didn't retain what apps I downloaded so I could simply redownload them. They should have it associated with your google account so you can just click a reinstall button to put them all back or have checkboxes to just reinstall certain ones.