There is no way to uninstall the native messaging client. The bottom line is that the battery life on this thing straight-up blows if you have it check your email on a fairly regular basis (every 30 minutes or less). I have followed every suggestion on every forum, as well as kept track of what program uses the most juice, and it's the e-mail program. This is ridiculous; I refuse to only have it check my email every four hours--or more--so I can have more battery life. Every other phone I had checked my email every 15 minutes, and I got a full-day's use out of it every day as long as I wasn't doing a bunch of talking or texting . I'm basically resigned to having to plug it in and charge it up on the way home from work every day, but what about when I'm on a trip? Hopefully, they'll do something about this in the next software update, but who knows.... The bottom line is that this is VERY disappointing, and if it wasn't for the fact that iPhone plans are so damned expensive and that I'm on Sprint's Advantage Plan because I have a relative that works for them, I would have had one a LONG time ago!
I agree with you on this issue. I resolved it by getting a GMail address and setting it up as push (Imap). Emails come in instantly and the battery lasts a looooong time. You should try it.
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