iPhone made a Guest appearance at CTIA 2007

As we reported yesterday, the iPhone made an appearance over at CTIA 2007 in Orlando, Florida.

The heavily gaurded phone was shown off by Cingular/AT&T COO Randall L. Stephenson. While Stephenson didn't use the phone while delivering the keynote, he did joke that it was the first time he had held the most wanted phone in the world, the iPhone.

Another person who spent time with the iPhone was Kevin Martin, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, who got to play with the iPhone backstage before it was whisked away by security.

Stephenson joked, "He spent more time with it than I did," Stephenson said. "It seemed like he wouldn't give it back." And who'd want to? If we had our paws on that beautiful phone we'd want to have a lot of face time with it as well!

Remarkably, Tuesday was only the second time Stephenson had held or seen an iPhone!

"I held it one time in a Cingular board meeting," but that unit wasn't operational, he said. "Today was the first time I could navigate it."