New 4S Battery Problem?

Wondering about my new 4S' battery. I think it's getting drained too much for a new unit. Here's a scenario.
Charged it to 100% before leaving my house i checked my social media feeds on wifi and made a few calls for about 5 minutes. 89% left after leaving my house. I left at around 6:20
Otw to my location i used Waze on mobile data for only 10 minutes and a few texts 81% left
After about 4 hours of checking my Twitter, Facebook and Instagram on mobile data 59% left
Arrived at my house with 50% left (10:30pm)
An hour and thirty minutes spent on the web using wifi 30% left
Charged it to 100% and used it again to check my feeds using mobile data after 20 minutes or so 79% left.
Note: I turned off Wifi after leaving the house only leaving my mobile data on. Background app refresh is off and so is auto-brightness
Is the battery drain normal? First day using it i discharged the battery to 0% and charged it all the way up to 100%.
Sorry for the long post. Just really concerned about my phone since this is my first iPhone.

It could be normal battery drain but i'm unsure.
How old is your iPhone 4S device?
It could be a hardware (battery) issue and it maybe should be replaced.
Or it can be a software related issue (e.g. a rogue app which keeps using e.g. GPS or refresh in background).
Read the blog post to determine if it is a hardware or software issue (usage time is equal to stand-by time).
In my case a rogue app which i had on my iPhone 4S already since iOS7.04 caused the drain after an update to IOS7.0.6. and still with iOS7.1 I removed the app and now my iPhone is fine again with iOS7.1 and now iOS7.1.1. ever since.
Question 1) Did you read the blog post i mentioned?
Question 2) Does your iPhone have the exact same Usage time as Stand-by time or not (see Settings > General > Use > ..)?
If this usage time is not exactly the same as the stand-by time then it could be that it simply is a hardware issue (battery itself) and not software (iOS) related.
Question 3) What kind of settings do you have on your iPhone e.g. the below things could cause a huge battery drain ever since the recent iOS release can still run in the background (if you have 'refresh in background' or GPS turned on for some apps).
We have two iPhone 4S phones and we have an average battery time of 1-1,5 day (when using it for e.g. a few calls, texts, mail, news apps and a short video for e.g. total of 3-4 hours) or even 2 days (if i don't use my phone much almost 90% stand-by time) and with WIFI connecting for about 90-95% of the day and ofcourse phone network but no 3G.
Aside from that we have the following settings which could save a lot of battery:
- bluetooth off
- screen brightness set to approximately 30%
- fetch e-mail accounts once an hour (Settings > E-mail, calendar .. > deselect 'Push' and set it to either Fetch e.g. once an hour)
- do not refresh any apps in the background (Settings > Refresh apps on background)
- apps that use GPS are limited (Settings > Privacy > Location tracking)
- only have a few apps (5-10) that are allowed to send push notifications
- only have a limited amount of apps to send messages to 'Notification center' or e.g badgets/strips/sounds/apps symbol or on your 'Access screen' (See Settings > Message center > check settings per app)
I think that 3G uses more battery then WIFI so if you have WIFI access then use that instead of 3G.

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