Huawei’s recent developer conference placed considerable emphasis on its own mobile operating system, Harmony OS, which it took quickly off the back burner last year when Google cut off its access to the full Android platform. However, Harmony OS will not be widely available in devices until next year, while Google’s own Android continues to gallop along with regular new releases, the latest of them targeted at lower end smartphones. This is a cut-down version of Android 11 (the eleventh Android release and eighteenth version since the OS made its debut in 2007 – Google has abandoned its habit of calling each iteration after a dessert). Since 2018, Google has developed ‘Go editions’ of its main Android releases to address…