“iPhone on training wheels.”

Not the words of yours truly. Rather, the words from Dave Dederer, founding member of the Presidents of the United States of America band (Remember Lump?) and a representative from Melodeo, when describing his company’s new mobile music service.

The new offering, called nuTsie, allows users to stream music from their iTunes libraries directly onto their cell phones. This name, an anagram of “iTunes” is in this writer’s humble opinion, perhaps the worst possible name a company could give a new product. To save some of you the trouble, and anagram basically means the same letters shuffled to make a new word. The term “nuTsie”, athough admirable in concept, clearly was approved by a bunch of non marketing savvy folk.

Digressions aside, this product is currently free to download and works on a select number of existing phones.

[Via Seattlepi]