Nokia unleashed three state of the art, multimedia phones in Berlin today. The N72 is a two-megapixel cameraphone with a glossy, fashion-forward look; the N73 (at left) is a 3-megapixel cameraphone with a Carl Zeiss lens running the Symbian smartphone OS, and the N93 is supposedly the highest-quality camcorder-phone ever released. The new models follow up on the success of Nokia's barnstormer N70 multimedia phone, which has been tremendously popular ...

Psyche! "Tremendously popular" outside the US, of course. The N70 was never released here, because US consumers are relatively uninterested in smartphones. Neither the N72 nor N93 are slated for a US release at all, and I have pretty low hopes that we'll be seeing the N73 any time soon. After all, we were supposed to get both Nokia's 6282 and N80 smartphones, and that didn't happen. Nokia is coming by PC Labs later today, hopefully to change my mind - look for a hands-on slideshow tomorrow.

Nokia also announced that they'd be supporting Flickr photo-sharing on their N-series phones, which is also relatively small news here because in the US, Cingular usually overwrites Nokia's standard application set with Cingular's own content relationships.

Get the full, heartbreaking details at Nokia's Web site.