I have a Hero 4 Silver. The WiFi part is awesome, but yes, it does smoke the battery.
What's nice about the Silver version, it has a touch screen on the back that displays what the camera is seeing. With this, I haven't even used the WiFi feature. The only time you'd need that is when you're setting the camera up somewhere that you can't see the back of it. The screen does shut off after about 30 seconds or so, that helps the battery life.
I loved the super compact version, the Session I believe. The only thing I didn't like about it, the battery is built in. On every other GoPro, you can have extra charged batteries waiting. With that one, you have to pull it off and charge it up...and charging can take awhile. So for me, I have two batteries...basically one is in there, the other is on a charger and I just swap them out.
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