[Groff]

A custom rom will seriously help battery life, there are some pretty good ones out there for the EVO.

Rooting with unrEVOked and using Autokiller Memory Optimizer (which is NOT a task killer! Task killers are battery killers) helps a lot too. Me and my sister both pull 30+ hours on our HTC Incredibles constantly, and they're similar to the EVO.

Also, give the keyboard some time, once you get used to a touch screen keyboard, it's awesome, but there's certainly a learning curve :yesway: There's a keyboard calibration tool in the keyboard settings of the phone, if you haven't run that, do so, that helps a little with accuracy too.

Now go play Angry Birds!