It would need to have Open Hardware, and that simply doesn’t exist. The way Android is built and how it can be configured, it doesn’t really matter because it is possible to use hardware security features in a Pixel to create a verifiably secure system on top of untrusted hardware. It is the hardware security features made available to developers that makes the Pixel the only real choice any more. Graphene does the best job of leveraging this hardware security. They ship a very basic system with no 3rd party garbage you don’t need.
It would need to have Open Hardware, and that simply doesn’t exist. The way Android is built and how it can be configured, it doesn’t really matter because it is possible to use hardware security features in a Pixel to create a verifiably secure system on top of untrusted hardware. It is the hardware security features made available to developers that makes the Pixel the only real choice any more. Graphene does the best job of leveraging this hardware security. They ship a very basic system with no 3rd party garbage you don’t need.