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I mean. There ARE mobile os options. Just you need to have very specific phones, and they're all old and outdated tech.
Yup, and getting fewer every day.
There are some projects (postmarketOS and half a dozen people forking it for other distros) trying to get kernel and drivers worked out, Linux is still sadly lacking at a bunch of the best tricks Android and IOS use to save power (most notably freezing applications), we'll get there eventually.
The Halium stuff +Ubuntu ports works if all you're worried about is privacy and as you said have a supported phone.
Postmarket can't make it through the morning on a charge. Halium is Android kernel and drivers and also has power issues if you decide to run android apps. Neither one can do anything with NFC.
But they do exist. It does give me hope that people are actively working on these projects, useless for daily driving or not. In a better timeline we'd have more than 2 properly viable mobile OS options.