ZTE have a track record of denying their customers updates & the Open C ships with some bugs right out of the box. The Flame as Mozilla's reference device seeks to solve the above issue by releasing regular OTA updates when available. The Flame does ship with a show stopping battery drain optimization bug, maybe wait till code base is more mature? But hey! What do you expect for version 1.3?!?

Yeah I expected bugs and issues to be present. I was just wondering because I knew some people already had Firefox OS phones. I don't expect to be developing apps for it, and if I do decide to I'll have to learn how. It's mostly for consumer use.

Hey Bratin!

I have used both phones extensively, and I personally like the Flame better. It's Mozilla's first offering of a reference-type device.

The best thing is the ability to install different test versions (shallow-flash of Gecko/Gaia) and receive nightly updates for that version. If you're feeling adventurous, you can even install the latest test version, and although it's very unstable, you can test some cool upcoming new features.

That's not to say that the Flame device is perfect yet, or that the ZTE is bad or difficult to upgrade. Both are great affordable devices, but the Flame device has more of a Mozilla feel to it. =)

- Ralph

note: the Flame device only supports the following frequencies:

• GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz
• UMTS 850/900/1900/2100MHz

Which means that it may be slower or not work if the network uses different frequencies.