The link on the main Win Central site asked "Should they sell it?", which is different from the title of this post "Will they sell it?"
The answer to will they is... probably. Microsoft looks like a bunch of inept, dysfunctional, knuckleheads when it comes to mobile (both to new consumers and to their fan base... which is very disturbing) , and without the ultimate mobile device (Andromeda... Surface Note... Surface Phone...) sitting proudly on store shelves they will continue to look like a bunch of inept, dysfunctional, knuckleheads.
The answer to should they is... yes... IF (and this is a big if)... they keep their promise to deliver the ultimate mobile device.
That ultimate mobile device should be a foldable tablet (the size of a phone when folded) that has both a GPS and LTE. Which is exactly what the rumoured Andromeda device is supposed to be. It should come with a pen, included in the price, and be called the Surface Note.
Microsoft should give up on coming out with any new purist phone devices. There is simply no way for them to regain lost ground in the bumbling... fumbling... disaster of Windows mobile. And btw much/most of that fault is Nadellas, it's not just Ballmer's. So yeah, go ahead and sell a Microsoft preloaded Android phone with all the MS services on it.
But at the same time they absolutely must come out with a mobile device that runs UWP apps. And I believe they must do so this year. Not next year... or the year after... or the year after that, but this year. Show your developer base and your fan base that you are 110% committed to UWP. That you have a backbone in that jelly flesh of yours after all. And that you are truly committed to the Windows OS on all form factors.