Korean phone maker LG has already announced the LG Panther early this year. Just a week after the WP7 OS has been revealed at the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona, Spain, the company was already able to show off a mock design of their upcoming Panther smart phone. The device was not only exciting for being the first WP7 device to be leaked in an image, but it is also the first (and currently only) WP7 handset that would actually be using a slide out QWERTY keyboard.

As anyone heavy text messaging user would tell you, not even the best haptic technology can come close to emulating the feel and more importantly, the performance of having a real physical keyboard to type on. And if that lone was not enough to draw in a solid chunk of WP7’s target market, LG is now going for a double whammy with a second device.

Of course, this would be assuming that either the LG E900 or LG C900 is referring to the already known LG Panther. But if the Panther is a completely different device, then it is quite possible that LG will be coming out with three new WP7 devices all in all.

At this point, one for each chassis type sounds like a pretty good plan for the phone maker to take.

Microsoft has already given out the basic tech specs for every WP7 handset. This means that the 1GHz CPU and WVGA touch screens are no longer anything of a surprise. The same goes for the 5 mega pixel camera, GPS and Bluetooth.