Chill with the howler monkeys and exotic butterflies while ziplining through the rainforest trees, or zoom down a river on a white-water raft.

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However, more adventurous souls might like to jump on the back of a scooter and zoom up and down the mountainside.

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If you want, you can hold your finger down on the Zoom key and tilt the phone forward to zoom in on a page.

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There are a couple of related key features here: first we have the zoom bar in the album app -- you hold down your finger to prompt the bar, and then you can zoom in and out with your vertical scrolling action.

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For a split second, we forgot that the magnifying glass next to volume down actually means "zoom out, " and as such we are still lacking a dedicated search button.

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The Z80 features a 3X optical zoom, face detection and an intelligent focusing system that locks in the correct focus, while the Z200 rocks a 4X optical zoom and wide angle lens -- down to 28mm.

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Atop the controller sits an infrared sensor which activates a game's zoom in or scope function when it detects a user's looking down the barrel.

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Tilt-zoom gives you a new way to zoom within the browser and picture gallery app, whereby you tilt the phone up to enlarge an image or down to shrink it.

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Satellite zoom-ups are driving the popularity of real estate upstart Zillow.com, where you can waste hours tracking down how much your neighbors paid for their homes (and what your childhood home now is worth).

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