This week saw the introduction of a new age to come in Windows Mobile devices. At the May 6th event held by HTC in London, we saw the HTC Diamond in action. Phone Mag provided you with a hands on gallery, a hands on video, and a tour of it’s new 3D TouchFLO interface. The device will begin it’s availability in Europe starting next month, and it is expected to ship to the rest of the world later in the year.

HTC may have been a major headline grabber this week, but RIM held it’s own in the headlines as well. We learned that the BlackBerry 9000 could possibly be called the BlackBerry Bold. We also learned when RIM will finally announce the BlackBerry 9000, it goes down at WES tomorrow. People waiting for Sprint to get the BlackBerry Curve can finally rest easy, as it is now available online.

We finally saw some decent pictures of Sony Ericsson’s upcoming P5 device. It was spotted in the wild this week, and it is looking good. The P5 will have a 5 megapixel camera, WiFi, UIQ 3.3, a SureType esque keyboard, and will also sport 3G to round the feature list out.

There has been no shortage of rumors regarding MVNO carriers, but it has been a while since we heard one like this. It would seem that Helio and Virgin Mobile are in merger talks. The deal would go down with SK Telecom buying Virgin Mobile, and Virgin Mobile buying Helio in a stock only transaction.

The Samsung Glyde for Verizon came out this week, after long months of rumors and spy shots. The device was thoroughly reviewed by Phone Mag. The Samsung Gyde features EV-DO data, a 2 megapixel camera, full HTML browser, Croix, haptic feedback, slide out QWERTY, and a high resolution touch screen.

We have been waiting for AT&T to launch their mobile TV service for way too long now. Though it is over a year behind Verizon in getting this out the door, AT&T has made up for it by offering some additional, exclusive channels. We got a hands on with the service. There are two handsets compatible with the service, the LG Vu, and the Samsung Access. For the hands on, the Samsung Access was used.

We round out our week in review with the news that Clearwire and Sprint, with the help of several others, including Intel and Google, have come to an agreement to deploy their WiMAX network. Sprint has merged its wireless broadband division with Clearwire. With the investments it received from Intel, Google, Time Warner, Comcast, and Bright House, the new entity is worth more than $12 billion.