Pls. help: iPhone 4s battery still bad after replacement

I got my iPhone 4s 64GB on day one as it became available in Europe. It was a big investment for me, so please help me find out what I should expect from the device.
First some background. I've had all iPhone models thus far, so I'm not new to the game. Also, I tried messing with the settings as described in many sites. Nothing helped. So I waited for 5.0.1. I installed it and it didn't help at all. It didn't make things worse or better. I then saw my wife's iPhone 4 going incomparably stronger with the same settings after a year and 3 months of usage. Basically her battery would go down to 92% compared to mine going to 72%, whilst she was even making calls and I just had mine in sleep.
So I decided to give up, and after discussing my issues with Apple Care conceded it *could* be a hardware problem and sent mine in.
I received my replacement iPhone 4s yesterday. I charged it fully and put it on my night stand at around midnight. Also, I made sure I didn't even restore my previous iPhone, but rather set it up as new, just entered my iCloud data and turned off the location services, etc. At 7 a.m. my battery showed something over half. It's noon now and after no phone calls and only checking a few emails my iPhone battery is deep in the red.
I'd appreciate your help, testing, opinions. I'm at loss whether this should be considered normal, because sending in device after device doesn't seem right to me and perhaps makes no sense.

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