About 4,000 of y’all have a Flame Firefox OS reference phone. This is the developer phone for Firefox OS. If you’re writing apps or contributing directly to the open source Firefox OS project, Flame is the device you should have.

The Flame shipped with Firefox OS 1.3 and we’re getting close to the first major update for the device, Firefox OS 2.0. This will be a significant update with lots of new features and APIs for app developers and for Firefox OS developers. I don’t have a date to share with y’all yet, but it should be days and not weeks.

If you’re like me, you cannot wait to see the new stuff. With the Flame reference phone, you don’t have to wait. You can head over to MDN today and get a 2.0 pre-release base image, give that a whirl, and report any problems to Bugzilla. You can even flash the latest 2.1 and 2.2 nightly builds to see even further into the future.

If you don’t have a Flame yet, and you’re planning on contributing testing or coding to Firefox OS or to write apps for Firefox OS, I encourage you to get one soon. We’re going to be wrapping up sales in about 6 weeks.