Seriously mate, I know that you are all dewy eyed and in the midst of being seduced by curved glass screen and turqoise aluminium casing but ask yourself this.....

When has anything that Nokia have done in the last 3 to 4 years made any sense?

You ask "why" in the above quote. "why would Nokia go to all the trouble of sending them out" blah blah blah

I can't answer that because really and truly, who knows why Nokia does anything anymore?

Announce they are scrapping their Symbian operating system even though they still have Symbian phones left that they are going to be putting on the market?

Jump into bed with Microsoft?

This palaver over ending support for the N900 8 months after it was released?

Why release the N9 with no damn keyboard, contrary to most potential N9 customers want?

Why release the "flagship" N97 and the N96 before it with no fvcking GPU? Making them inferior to even the N95?

So when you ask "why are Nokia going to all the trouble of sending out the N950's", don't be thinking that they have some mega plan up their sleeve. They haven't. The iPhone and Android have knocked Nokia for six and it's too late now.

They don't have a frickin' clue what to do.

But at least the N950 can schedule email downloads to keep the phone silent at night. Can't wait for that.