Disabling Push notifications for SMS

I'm fairly new to iOS, and I'm trying to find a way to disable the push notifications presented on events -- like when you receive a text message.
It would be great if there were a way to NOT have push notifications pop up and potentially interrupt whatever I'm doing -- but still have the badge update on the Messages app icon to indicate something new and unread.
Can this be done, or do we need to wait and hope that Apple puts the webOS notifications guy they hired to good use? My last phone was a webOS one, so I got spoiled with that very slick and arguably "better" notifications system.
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Apple Development: This needs to be addressed. Like the others, my experience on the device is being interrupted by SMS notifications. I'm watching a movie on my iphone, but my twitter feeds (which goes to my SMS) interrupts the movie constantly with SMS notifications. Each one pauses my movie, I have to press close, and then unpause. Really annoying. There should be a setting to turn-off SMS notifications and let the App Icon's badge counter take care of notifying you of new messages. Seriously. This is an annoying issue that should override any perceived benefit of compelling users to "close" SMS message notifications. Seems like a simple fix, too. Please help us development.

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I've learned that it's not the number of apps that use push notification that drains the battery, but the number of apps that actively use it to send messages.
If push is turned on, the battery will drain slightly faster since the phone needs to maintain a constant 3G (or GSM) connection open, but no data is actually sent or received unless you receive a push notification.
In the case of push email, a push notification triggers the mail app to make an outbound IMAP4 connection. Depending on how often you receive email, this can decrease the battery life. If you receive lots of emails every few minutes, using 15 minute fetch will be more battery efficient. If you receive emails every few hours, push is more efficient.
For apps, it doesn't really matter since the apps can't initiate a network connection unless they are running. I'm not sure if app servers constantly sending push notifications when the notification for those apps is turned off drains the battery any faster or not. From what I've read when push notification are turned off for an app, Apple's push servers will tell that app's servers to not perform a push. In other words, Apple won't push app notifications to the phone for apps where notifications are disabled or the app isn't installed.

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