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Telstra has announced it will no longer offer its sports-dedicated Live Pass app, and instead has inked a long-term partnership to replace it with sports streaming service Kayo.

The new deal with Kayo will bring over 50 sports live and on demand to Telstra’s service, including the AFL and NRL, for an additional fee. Telstra’s previous AFL and NRL apps streamed games on demand, but matches were not available to watch live.

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If you’ve previously used Telstra’s Live Pass, the telco is offering you a huge discount on a basic subscription to Kayo Sports. The monthly subscription would usually set you back AU$25 a month, but Telstra is knocking a massive AU$20 off each month for the first 12 months.

That will get eligible customers a Kayo subscription for just AU$5 a month over an entire year, which is a massive saving of AU$240 in total.

Telstra customers who haven’t used the provider’s own streaming app can still get a discount on Kayo, and will pay AU$15 a month (instead of the usual AU$25) for their first 12 months connected to the service.

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With this discount offer, Telstra may be hoping to tempt some sport-loving Optus customers away. Optus Sport is a football streaming service which lets users stream the Premier League, Champions League and others.

Telstra says that customers won’t be limited to watching Kayo on their mobile phone, with Telstra’s CEO, Andy Penn, stating it will be available “across all platforms, all devices”.

Kayo’s basic subscription allows you to live stream sport on up to two screens at once, while a premium subscription tier ups that to three simultaneous streams. Kayo is also designed to cater to the die-hard sports fan, with a feature-rich platform that's not seen on any other streaming service. Read our in-depth review of Kayo Sports to find out more.

To be eligible for Telstra’s ripper AU$20 discount on Kayo, users must have redeemed a Telstra AFL or NRL Live Pass service before December 22, 2020, and still use the same Telstra account used to redeem it. If that’s you, sign up through Telstra here.

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Storage drives have gotten a whole lot better over the past few years. Gone are the days when you couldn’t run software from them or move them around too much during use. These days, we have solid-state drives -- and the SanDisk Extreme Pro® Portable SSD takes solid state storage to the next level.

There are a number of things that make the SanDisk Extreme Pro Portable SSD such a great drive, but perhaps at the top of that list is the fact that it’s lightning fast. In fact, the SanDisk Extreme Pro portable drives leverage Western Digital’s NVMe technology to increase transfer speeds, and with these drives, you’ll get up to a massive 2000MB/s*, fully taking advantage of the USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 interface. That should be more than fast enough to transfer your files with ease, or even run games or your operating system directly from the drive.

You could have plenty of data to transfer too. SanDisk Extreme Pro drives come in a few different storage amounts, with options including 1TB, 2TB, and all the way up to 4TB*! Safe to say, whether you need a drive for basic file storage, storing your games, or for your creative projects, there should be something for your needs.

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SanDisk Extreme Pro drives go beyond offering a great spec sheet. These drives are built for on-the-go use, and feature a rugged design with a strong aluminum body to protect the drive’s core. That aluminum body is even coated with rubber for high impact resistance, and to give the drive an IP55 rating for water and dust resistance**. 

Given the combination of rubber and aluminum, you might assume that SanDisk Extreme Pro drives are big and chunky, but nothing could be further from the truth. Extreme Pro drives are incredibly small and can easily fit in your pocket. 

No matter what your situation, SanDisk Extreme Pro Portable SSD should work for you. The drives support PCs and Macs, so they should work right out of the box. The cable in the box is a USB-C cable, which is perfect for newer computers, but in case you don’t have a newer computer just yet, they also come with a USB-C to USB-A adapter.

Interested in a SanDisk Extreme Pro Portable SSD for yourself? Head straight to the Western Digital website to pick one up.

^{*Up to stated speed. Based on internal testing; performance may vary depending on host device, usage conditions, drive capacity, and other factors. 1MB = one million bytes. As used for storage capacity, 1TB = one trillion bytes. Actual user capacity less.}

^{**Based on internal testing. IPEC 60529 IP 55: Tested to withstand water flow (30 kPa) at 3 min.; limited dust contact does not interfere with operation. Must be clean and dry before use.}

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A new rumor suggests the forthcoming iPhone 13 series will get improved ultra-wide and telephoto cameras, but only for the high-end iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max versions.

These aren’t huge upgrades: the ultra-wide cameras could get better apertures, from f/2.4 in the iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max to f/1.8 in the iPhone 13 Pro/Pro Max, according to a Barclays analyst’s investor note seen by MacRumors. 

This should mean better low-light performance, which had already been improved in last year’s iPhones which added night mode capability to ultra-wide cameras. Curiously, the aperture upgrades reportedly aren’t coming to the lower-end iPhone 13 or the iPhone 13 mini (assuming one is coming), only the pricier models. 

This reaffirms a previous prediction by noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who made the prediction about an ultra-wide camera with f/1.8 aperture upgrade and noted that the iPhone 14 coming in 2022 would likely pack the same.

The Barclays note also mentioned that the iPhone 13 Pro could get the Pro Max’s better telephoto camera, improving the 12 Pro’s f/2.0, 52mm focal length equivalent camera to the f/2.2, 65mm focal length equivalent camera that the iPhone 12 Pro Max had.

In simpler terms, this would increase the phone’s telephoto clarity, going from 2x optical zoom to 2.5x optical zoom.

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The iPhone 13: incremental upgrades, again

This new Barclays note exemplifies all we’ve heard before about the iPhone 13: its improvements sound largely incremental. 

Whether it’s a smaller notch and better cameras, Wi-Fi 6E, LiDar across its entire line, most of its additions are welcome but not exciting; heck, its most drastic potential upgrades – in-screen touch sensors and 120Hz refresh rate screens – came to Android phones years ago. 

On the other hand, the iPhone 12 line was expected to improve incrementally, too, though the actual upgrades were substantial in total: a ‘mini’ version, camera hardware upgrades, a new raw photo format, and the MagSafe system for wireless charging and attaching accessories. So it’s anyone’s guess if we’re going to see more dramatic features hinted at, and eventually unveiled, in the iPhone 13 line.

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Vivo recently launched the Vivo X60 Pro Plus in China, thus completing the X60 series, comprising the vanilla Vivo X60, X60 Pro and Vivo X60 Pro Plus. This new series of smartphones is set to be introduced in India. And they could arrive as soon as within the next 45 to 60 days.

According to the initial reports, the company is reportedly bringing its fully loaded Vivo X60 Pro Plus in the country while it's not clear if the base variant and the X60 and X60 Pro will also accompany their on-steroids sibling.

To recall, with the Vivo X50 series, the company focused on camera-centric features and had marketed the device as one in spite of not supporting processors of flagship grade. However, they did have features ad design that could put any top of the line product to shame. However, the X60 series comes with the latest flagship SoC from Qualcomm.

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 Vivo X60 Pro Plus Launch date in India 

According to a report by 91mobiles, the Vivo X60 Pro Plus, which presents quite a challenge in pronouncing its name, is heading out of China within months of its introduction in January. The company may launch the phone around the last week of March or in the first couple of weeks of April. 

 Vivo X60 series price in India 

There is no clarity around the Indian pricing of the upcoming flagship series from Vivo yet, however, the vanilla X60 comes in three different variants based on memory and storage combinations back in China. The 8GB RAM+128GB is priced at CNY 3498, the 8GB RAM+256GB is priced at CNY3798 and the 12GB RAM+256GB retails at CNY 3998.

The Vivo X60 Pro only comes in 12GB+256GB and is priced at CNY 4498 back home while the X60 Pro Plus has a couple of variants and the 8GB+128GB is priced at CNY 56400 and the fully-loaded 12GB+256GB variant is pegged at CNY 5998.

Looking at the Chinese pricing, it is clear that the pricing of the X60 series in India may start around Rs. 37,000 for the base variant and the top-end version of X60 Pro Plus could easily be priced around Rs. 68,000 or more.

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Vivo X60 Pro Plus specifications 

As mentioned above, the X60 Pro Plus comes with flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoC in tow, coupled with up to 12GB of RAM and 256GB of internal storage. The phone has a 6.56-inch FHD+ (2376×1080) AMOLED display with up to 120Hz refresh rate. The display on this phone comes in a 19.8:9 aspect ratio with supports for HDR10 and HDR10+ content.

In terms of optics, the phone packs a quad-camera setup at the back with 50MP main sensor, a 48MP wide-angle lens, a 32MP portrait sensor, and an 8MP periscope lens with support for 60x Super Zoom. It also has a 32MP camera at the front housed in a hole punch cutout to take care of selfies and video calls.

This is Vivo’s first lineup after the company shifted to the new Origin OS and the Vivo X60 Pro Plus runs on an Android 11-based Origin OS skin. It comes with an in-display fingerprint sensor, a 4,200mAh battery that supports 55W flash charging via a USB Type C port

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Following on from their collaboration on Black Panther, which earned over $1.3 billion at the global box office in 2018, The Walt Disney Company has announced an exclusive deal with writer-director-producer Ryan Coogler's multi-media company to produce television content for Disney Plus.

The five-year deal will see Proximity Media, which was co-founded by Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ludwig Göransson, Archie Davis and Peter Nicks, develop a new television series set in the Kingdom of Wakanda, home of the Black Panther.

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"With Black Panther, Ryan brought a groundbreaking story and iconic characters to life in a real, meaningful and memorable way, creating a watershed cultural moment," said Disney's executive chairman Bob Iger in the announcement. "We’re thrilled to strengthen our relationship and look forward to telling more great stories with Ryan and his team."

Speaking on behalf of Proximity Media, Coogler said "we couldn’t be happier to be launching our television business with Bob Iger, Dana Walden and all the amazing studios under the Disney umbrella," also teasing that the company is "already in the mix on some projects that we can't wait to share."

Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige recently revealed that Black Panther 2 would be moving forward despite the death of lead actor Chadwick Boseman, leading us to assume that the upcoming Disney Plus series will either follow side characters like Shuri (Letitia Wright) and Okoye (Danai Gurira), or see a new Black Panther crowned.

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