IPod Touch 3rd Generation 32GB Brand New drains with Wifi

I recently purchased an iPod Touch 32 GB 3rd Gen and started using it 2 days ago. Everything about my iPod is awesome except for Wifi. If I connect to wifi and use Facebook or Safari (or any internet app), my battery life gets cut short to about 2 hours. This is without music playing, and brightness set at a low level. My mail is set to fetch every hour, and there's no push. My girlfriend has an iPod Touch 8GB 2nd Gen for a year, and she doesn't have this problem. Her battery barely goes down while using wifi+facebook. I find this extremely disturbing. I know that her iPod is supposed to have 6 extra hours of music, but I didn't think that would cause such a difference. Does anyone have this problem? If so, could y'all please help me? I love my iPod Touch, but I hate the Wifi problem. Thanks in advance.

Did you try to delete your mail account and set it up again? There have been posts about the mail app getting stuck connecting to the mail server over and over again when set to fetch.

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iPod touch: Hardware troubleshooting
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