My iphone 4s only charges to 96%  Is there a problem with my battery

Is there a known problem with the battery life of the iPhone 4S?  I only have my phone a few weeks and the battery life is very poor.  I've made sure that there aren't lots of things running at the same time (and I'm not using iCloud), but need to charge my phone every night which I never had to do with my old iPhone 3.  In addition I have noticed that my iPhone never charges 100%, only 96%, I've tried discharging the battery totally and then recharging the phone just in case it's a calibration issue.  Should I bring the phone back to have the battery replaced?

From the Apple site about the iPad battery ...
Use Your iPad Regularly
For proper reporting of the battery’s state of charge, be sure to go through at least one charge cycle per month (charging the battery to 100% and then completely running it down).
Here is the article.
http://www.apple.com/batteries/ipad.html
If you are getting around 10 hours of use out of the battery you are probably fine at 98% and it may just be that the battery needs to be calibrated in order to see the full 100% on the indicator. Try the charge cycle and see what happens.

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