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It's fairly straight-foward on the lastest versions of Android that allow you to freeze apps, rather than having to root and rename the apks.

Here's a list of the apps that are safe to remove, noting the Google ones:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2299805

If the phone has a Google account already configured, lock-out the phone by changing the account password on a PC. If its rooted, delete the accounts.db file.

Apps that I usually then install for the user:

- Osmand to replace Google Maps

- F-Droid and sometimes Amazon App Store

- K9 Mail ( you can even point this to G-Mail quite safely! )

- Firefox in place of the stock browser




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