To be clear, is your proposal that someone who receives an N950 as
part of the Summer'12 Device Program reverse engineer it so that a
cloned device could be created by a cheap Chinese manufacturer?

If so, is the purpose of relating this to the Council to ensure that
they somehow identify someone skilled enough to do this and ensure
they get an N950?

I don't know where to start but lets raise a few things:

• What operating system would this cloned device run?
• How would it not suffer from the same flaws as the N950 (limited
  landscape support in core apps; "antennagate")?
• Patents
• Cost
• Complexity
• Copyright of firmware blobs

If this was remotely feasible, couldn't someone start with an
N900 and give it a CPU & memory boost? It's a far more satisfying
keyboarded phone than an N950, believe me.