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Well said jurop88. I think there definitely needs to be a refinement of the built-in Maemo apps rather than a completely new OS. This should be doable by Nokia, but it should also be open for developers to further enhance the apps as well. Right now, there are several apps that have replaced many of the built-in apps only because each new app only does something a little better, or more efficiently than the previous. For instance Mplayer does video without as many "file format not supported" errors as the original player, then came Nokia's own Media Streamer app that expanded the audio capabilities to other machines via UPnP. Now we have Canola, which does just about all the multimedia work for the 770. This evolutionary process has taken a little less than a year, but I believe it would have taken even less time to further develop the built-in player to do all this and more. I also think all these programs should be uninstallable and reinstallable [via flashing the device at least], giving the user the option of the greatest customization.

This goes for the web browser, email app, sketch app, games, calculator, image viewer, PDF reader, and even Google Talk. I don't have a problem with having these installed by default, but there must be some way to selectively install [during re-flashing] the programs of your choosing.

Am I talking crazy, or is this just not possible?
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