Oh, Siri, you're such a humble gal.

The Siri voice recognition software on Apple's (AAPL) iPhone 4S can tell you a lot of things, including what is the best smartphone ever. But her answer probably won't make Apple happy.

When asked "What is the best smartphone ever?" Siri doesn't mention the iPhone. Instead, it recommends Nokia's (NOK) Lumia 900 4G on AT&T's (T) network. And Siri apparently prefers cyan, recommending that color above the others.

Various news sites reported this discovery Friday. I tested it on an iPhone, and it seriously took about 14 tries to get the same result. (The other 13 times, Siri kept asking to call a local glass company. Grrrr.) I took the above photo of the result. CNET reports that its staffers tried the same question and got Yelp (YELP) results in response.

But when you ask Siri "What is the best smartphone?" it gives the right answer (for Apple at least). "The one you're holding," it responds. It's just the word "ever" that screws up the query.

Siri gets many of its answers from Wolfram Alpha, which will tell searchers that the Lumia 900 is the best smartphone. Wolfram Alpha is a site that tries to provide direct answers to questions instead of directing them to a website full of results. But Wolfram Alpha came to its conclusion based on a handful of reviews from the Best Buy (BBY) site.

This whole exercise is quite silly, but it's getting cheers from Nokia and Microsoft (MSFT) fans who are tired of all the iPhone love out there. (Microsoft owns and publishes Top Stocks, an MSN Money site.)

"The news is heartening in its own way, as it shows that Apple didn't attempt to tweak the answer to what is likely an oft-asked question," VentureBeat observes.

The bigger lesson, VentureBeat adds , is that you shouldn't use Siri or Wolfram Alpha for device recommendations.

The "Today" show puts Siri through its paces in the following video.