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Lmao. At this point buy any android phone and just put a custom ROM on it.
For $1,800 I will personally install a custom ROM on your phone.
Funnily enough, this is for running Linux not Android and the best devices for running mobile Linux are all either older models (used Oneplus 6t doesn't cost much) or pretty cheap (Pinephone pro).
I think the appeal was supposed to be all drivers are open source. where as even with custom roms, you still have proprietary firmware blobs that must be updated by the manufacturer to prevent any exploits