While a five-megapixel camera sounded like a boon, we were forewarned that it's of the fixed-focus variety.

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The original iPhone and the 3G (see top left and center above) featured a 2 megapixel fixed-focus camera.

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But the Bold 9900 also features a fixed-focus camera, no front-facing camera, only single-core processor technology and a sub-3 inch screen size.

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Sitting in her home in waning light, she is filmed in fixed-focus shots (the first one runs an hour and keeps running even when she gets up to go to the bathroom).

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Moving upwards, the C5510 adds in a dual-band 3G radio, 16GB expandability, and a 2 megapixel fixed-focus camera, while the S6700 slider (pictured) tops out the range with HSDPA, a 3 megapixel camera with autofocus and dual-LED flash, GPS, and 120MB of storage on board.

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Weight your portfolio towards high-quality fixed-income securities and focus your Canadian stock list on banks, utilities, and leading telecoms such as BCE Inc. ( BCE), which just raised its dividend by 5%.

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Health Insurance Innovations' focus is fixed-term, 12- or six-month medical-insurance plans, lower-cost alternatives to traditional insurance plans, which are renewable.

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Fixed-line operators have now cut their infrastructure spending to focus on picking up clients rather than expanding their networks.

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In addition to daily use as a "pan-focus" lens featuring a wide angle, fixed f8 aperture and shallow depth of field, it is compatible with manual focusing using a lever and capable of close-up shooting as close as 30 cm.

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