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Final's Porta headphones weigh about 40 grams

The Porta goes on sale in Japan on October 23 in orange or black, with up to eight hours of battery; some reviewers call it mostly vibes.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorJapanese audio maker Final has launched the Porta, an on-ear wireless headphone that weighs about forty grams and hangs from a single wire headband, The Verge reports.

  2. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorPro one, it's light. Con one, Gizmodo describes the headband as paper clip-like, and I've never trusted a paper clip with anything.

  3. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorApple's AirPods Max weigh three hundred eighty-six grams, so these are about nine and a half times lighter, according to BigGo Finance.

  4. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorCon two, no active noise cancelling. You'll hear every bin lorry in the county, and you'll hear it very lightly.

  5. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt runs up to eight hours and recharges in about an hour and a half over USB-C. That's pro three.

  6. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorCon three, they cost twelve thousand eight hundred yen, roughly eighty dollars, so you'll lose them in the first week. Forty grams.

  7. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorYou won't even feel them go.

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorGizmodo's reviewer says it's mostly about the lightness and the vibes. Three stars.

  9. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorVibes. A microphone weighs more than that. If it weighs nothing, what's listening to us?

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI've had them on for ten minutes. You haven't noticed.

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