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.

Now, 5 more devices are added to LG’s 2010 lineup of mobile phones.

First up is the LG Jaguar 5, which, despite sharing a similar naming convention to the Panther (wild cats and all), this device is slated to be a standard candy bar mobile phone. Very few details have been released regarding the Jaguar 5, but it is known that it will come with a VGA camera.

The KS365 is an updated version of the KS360 slide phone. Once again, the device will have that cute looking slide out physical keyboard (yes the one with rounded keys). The phone will have an FM radio, a 2 mega pixel snapper and a 2.4 inch QVGA touch screen display.

The LG Pure is a mid range HSDPA smart phone that will come equipped with a 5 mega pixel camera but apparently, no touch screen display. A modified S-Class user interface has been confirmed for the Pure. A second device in the mid-level smart phone range is the GT405 which will come with another modified s-class user interface, this time a 3D touch version. No word yet on the final specs for the GT405 but it will have a 5 mega pixel camera and an FM radio. The last device in the list is the much talked about LG Cookie Music KM750 smart phone.

Get to know more about LG’s brand new smart phones at Mobile Choice UK.

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.