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As far as fairphone goes, fairphone 5 is probably your best bet. Audio is almost working, that just leaves camera, VoLTE, and NFC (which I personally don't use, so I don't care) Everything else should work
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_5_(fairphone-fp5)
Volte is a big deal when carriers are phasing out old tech.
I believe if you install Ubuntu Touch on it, VoLTE either should work now, or is being added soon.
That's... Quite a long list of deal breakers for me, I'm afraid. I really want a Linux phone, and i wouldn't mind paying extra for the effort. But i need one that works with all its hardware. Calls, data, gps, camera, sensors and yes, also NFC. My country's digital ID app uses it to verify your physical ID in order to allow you to login for some paperwork.
If you install Ubuntu Touch on it, everything works because its using the vendor's android kernel for hardware drivers. PostmarketOS is using the standard Linux kernel and a LOT of volunteer hours have been spent by people reverse engineering the hardware without manufacturers help, to get working drivers added to the Linux kernel. That's why not 100% of the hardware works yet on most phones postmarketOS supports.
My gripe with ubuntu Touch is I like the app ecosystem and desktop interface (gnome mobile) better with postmarketOS, so I'd rather run that instead.
They got camera working on FP3 and FP4. Fairphone employs a guy who basically does work to get their hardware to run Linux.