6.0.1 seems to have fixed my iPhone 5 battery life. Hypothesis as to why inside...

So after installing iOS 6.0.1, and being COMPLETELY angry with no mention of the battery drain glitch being resolved in the patch notes, I'm pleasantly surprised that I can report that my battery life is now BETTER than my iPhone 4 was. This is like a godsend! I used to see a percentage go down in less than a minute, but I've been at 94% for the past 5 minutes of usage at max brightness with all settings on like cloud, fetch, push, etc.
My best guess as to the glitch that caused the battery drain is that something was entirely funky with the way wifi and cellular was handled, and that was the glitch that was resolved that indirectly was causing diminished battery life.
I assume that Apple was aware of the glitch, but wanted to minimize bad publicity so they never acknowledged the problem, but worked on a fix silently. I'm not sure I agree with that approach, but the important thing is that they seemed to have fixed it, since the difference is so obvious to me that it's like night and day. Can anybody else confirm their battery life has also improved significantly?

I've been using my phone constantly for the past half hour with all features on and max brightness and its only gone down 5%.
It was going down over a percent a minute before with features turned off! It's so dramatic that it's hard not to notice.

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