Iphone 4s 1 month old Shuts off with battery life remaining!

Just wanted to put this out for others to see.
I bought this iphone online from Cricket brand new in June 12, 2013, didnt activate it till July 9, 2013 and today 8-2-13 I had to take it to Apple to diagnose because it was shutting down by itself even though it was showing 50% battery remaining and would not boot but showed the "battery icon with the red bar inside" indicating it needed to be charged. However, when you did charge it and then booted it, it would show that there was 50% battery remaining since that was the point it shut down at and started charging from that point or at whatever battery %(percentage) it shut down at. Initially it started turning off the 1st week at 5%, then 10%, then 15%, then 20%, then 21% and so on until by the end of 24 days of light use it was shutting off at 50%. I took the phone to Apple and the Apple employee saw the problem i was having and had a technician open it. Apple's conclusion from the store was 1. The battery was working 100%, 2. Everything inside looked original" (It should, it was a new phone, not refurbished). So basically  the iphone 4s was defective but he didn't want to say that. The problem was Not the battery but something hardware or software related. They gave me a new iphone 4s to replace mine since it was under warranty for 1 year and thanfully Cricket didn't charge to reactivate the phone otherwise Apple was refusing to take liablitiy for a defective product and pay the activation fee had Cricket charged me even after i spoke with the manager. Hopefully this phone will be ok, otherwise its another trip to Apple.
Bottom line is it was not the battery but something defective with the hardware or software for anyone else that might be having this problem. IF your phone is under warranty I would have them look at it.
Good luck.

The first time this happened to me was at noon and the battey was about 80%, then again about 4pm and the battery was about 53% and again like one hour ago. This is very anoying, i am happy with my new phone but i feel bad about this issue.

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