Asphyx
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I have a significant jump in performance and battery life when I freeze much of the unnecessary apps. Removing it permanently may yield a slight bit more performance enhancement, since its not on the phone. But seeing as the phone has 8gb internal storage, there is no need to go out of your way to remove the app. If we had less internal storage, removing it would have more impact on performance.
My statement was in regards to a difference between Removed apps and Frozen.
Either method for removing bloat will give you the performance advantage your seeing but Freezing allows you to easily go back when it's OTA time