Ars Technica [1] put it best. These phones are dead on arrival.
This is not the first time Nokia has done something like this. It released a
Meego version of the N9, its long-in-development Symbian successor, before
immediately abandoning the platform and switching to Windows Phone.
This isn't a sign of some deep strategy. It's just standard Nokia platform craziness.
1: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/02/nokia-to-release-an-a...