Sweet! Based on the swinging of the gun barrel, it looked like you had a little indecisiveness. I thought for sure you were going to drop that 2nd bird.
No it does not have a remote.
I have two batteries for it. I switch batteries at lunch time, so I don't really know if one would go all day.
You can operate it using your cell phone, right? I thought they had an app for that. If your wife would have bought you the Virb, you could operate it off of your Alpha Handheld.