Poor 4S battery life while using apps

Most of the posts I've been following about cruddy iOS5 battery life seem to revolve around when the phone is in standby. I seem to have that mostly addressed on my phone. So my big complaint is how poor the battery life is while I'm actually using the phone. I'm coming from the 4, whose battery life wasn't really stellar, but this is by far worse.
I know they dropped the estimated battery life on WiFi from 10 hours to 9, but what I'm experiencing is worse than that. I played 10 minutes of a non-intensive game yesterday (one that wouldn't have a large battery impact on my 4), and in those 10 minutes, the battery life dropped from 75% to 69%.
As of right now (12:31), my battery life is at 22%, down from 76% at 6:30 this morning. With my 4, I would have been in the mid 50s, and I've done nothing differently than I would have a week ago. Checked my mail, read a couple of static pages in Safari, messed with the Settings a little, checked my calendar and reminders a couple of times--nothing intesive. No games, no map. I did browse the App Store for about five minutes, but... This is all standard usage sorta stuff that never would have drained half the battery life with my 4. My "usage" even shows that the phone has been inactivate for 3 out of those 6 hours.
Any suggestions on this? My standby life, while not fantastic, isn't horrific, so I think I've effectively tweaked a lot of the tweakable things (like location stuff, diagnostics, etc). But is there something I could be missing? I have the screen on auto-brightness with the slider set to just below the "gh" in "Brightness." That's where I kept it on my 4, too.
I thought I read the new battery was actually better, but this is definitely not an improvement

I have the same problem! Mine does last for about 3 - 4 hours, but that is about it! Any suggestions?

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