New Phone flies with Nintendo Games

Little-known handset manufacturer Fly has announced its new MC100 handset which features both Java MIDP2.0 / CLDC1.1. as well as - and that is the cracker - support for Nintendo NES, SNES, Gameboy and Gameboy Colour game formats. There are some neat dedicated gaming buttons and a rather useful-looking "D-pad".

The handset is powered by a Yamaha chip and also has an MP3-player. Whilst Fly seems to be mainly active in Eastern Europe (that's at least the only region where they have service centres), the handset is retails at the not too shabby price of $270 a pop; where it goes on sale, remains a miracle: the currency would suggest the US but perhaps it is Russia after all?

Also, the issue if these games are legit remains a bit in the dark. Fly only says that "games (nes/smc/gb/gbc) can be freely downloaded from the Internet and set up in your Fly MC100".
This would suggest that Nintendo is not involved in this, and there is indeed no active (or passive for that matter) endorsement from Nintendo anywhere to be seen. So this would almost certainly exclude any "proper" Nintendo games from being included (unless Fly wants to risk a visit from Nintendo's legal eagles). All a bit odd really but, boy, would it be cool were it legit...