Why does my iPhone 5 battery drain so fast!?!?

Got an iphone last week.. for every minute that my screen was on, my battery would drain 1%. I was charging it so many times a day.. you can do the math. Finally brought it to Apple after day 3 and they gave me a brand new phone. My new one is doing the same thing.. I find it unlikely that I'd get TWO defective phones in a row. My friends with the iphone5 say they can go about a day and a half with heavy usage and still have a small battery percentage left. Is there something I'm doing wrong? I only have about 4 apps and I close them out completely when I'm not using them. I barely use the browser... I text a lot but isnt that the purpose of having a phone? Help please! Very displeased with Apple right now.

You could set it to Fetch every 15 minutes and see how your battery holds up. I have it set to check manually and when I open email it downloads the mail then.
It's not a great solution if you need Push email but it saves the battery.
Apple needs to fix it, it seems anything that uses networking is broken in iOS 6. iOS 6.0 and 6.0.1 function like beta versions of software.
Looking at the discussion forums Apple can and should do better than this. If serious users cant connect to wifi properly, cant get acceptable download speeds, see their cellular data usage skyrocket and cant use push emails then the iPhone 5 becomes an expensive toy.

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