Best smartphone if there were no third party apps

[Chops McGandhi]

OP needs to reword his title. He didnt actually mean "no" apps. He meant no third party apps. Just what comes with the OS. Which is actually quite a lot depending on the platform. You can do a lot more with almost any smartphone than you can with a Nokia S60 using the Ovi app store.

Ok, ironed out the title some.

 

[Munky]

Symbian S3, obviously. Or even the older Symbian S60. Those come loaded with apps that Android/Iphone users have to buy from third parties. File browser, photo/video editor, turn by turn navi, media player for various formats, memory encryption, office document editing... just to name a few examples.