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When Steve Ballmer and company announced that the new Windows Phone 7 mobile platform is not due till holidays, plenty of us cringed at the thought of the long wait.

The new OS shown onstage was so incredible and so revolutionary that it made us glance at our Androids and iPhones while thinking “these are so yesterday’s platforms”. The detail and sheer volume of dynamic elements in the demonstration showed off how great WP7’s UI is in terms of handling information and how to arrange it easily for users. The tiles system replaces widgets in terms of customizability and the addition of Zune, Bing and Xbox Live Games to the system certainly helps improve lots of things for the new OS.

Of course, Windows Phone 7 is still far from complete. At the Mobile World Congress, it was obvious that the Office functions still lacked plenty of major programs, no game demos were available and the Marketplace for WP7 was nowhere to be seen. For all purposes, MS succeeded in frustrating us with the possibility of a long wait.

Now, LG has come up with some very surprising news; they have been working on a device for WP7 and reports indicate a potential September release date.

The LG Panther follows the type-2 chassis with the slide out QWERTY keyboard and the traditional touch screen layout on top of the device. Aside from the 5 mega pixel camera with LED flash on the back, there are no other details revealed about the new phone. Speculations have popped out saying that the CPU will be a 1GHz Snapdragon –understandable considering that MS and Qualcomm are working together on the new OS.

In any case, if WP7 is finished early; this could be the very first Windows Phone 7 device to be available.

Read more about the LG Panther at Mobile Today UK.