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Apple's Siri nominates Nokia as best phone maker

You cannot be Siri-ous

Who'd've thunk it? Apple's voice-assistant, Siri, has suggested Nokia's Lumia 900 as the lead candidate to be the best cell phone ever.

Someone put that very question to Siri, and here, courtesy of fansite WMPowerUser, is the result:

Siri suggests Nokia

Source: WMPowerUser

Siri interrogates Wolfram's Alpha database for answer to punters' queries, and the Windows Phone-based handset is what Alpha offers, based on a whopping four reviews posted on the website of Best Buy, a US retailer.

Siri may not have nominated the iPhone 4S, or even the iPhone 4, but at least Apple fans can take consolation from the fact that Siri's answers are not, as some have claimed, filtered by the Cupertino Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field to yield a more... appropriate answer. ®

Thanks to Simon for the tip

whopping 4 user reviews

http://xkcd.com/937/

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Re: Shittiest voice command system recommends the Shittiest Mobile OS.

Your real name is Richard Stallman and I claim my £5.

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Anonymous Coward

Re: If you ask for best "mobile phone"...

I think maybe they vary the answers to make it look less like a crappy RSA chatbot, as when I asked it said "The Winnebago Journey 42E"

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OLD OLD news...

Actually, so old that Apple have now changed the result so that it says things like "you're holding it" you're kidding, right?" etc. Oh yes, the results are MOST DEFINITELY filtered and monitored by Apple.

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Anonymous Coward

How dare you ?

Think I could be fooled into buying crap I don't need ?

-"I think you've answered that question"

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