Big companies care about the majority which brings them big profit. For smaller companies, though, it's more adventageous to go after small niches.
If you think a lot of privacy conscious people wpuld buy a phone with no microphone or speakers (i'm guessing you're planning to connect those via USB before calling someone viavoice?) you might be able to start a business providing phones like that for your niche.
I use GrapheneOS which lets you disable your microphone and camera in the OS. Then when I make or get a call or pull up the camera app it asks me if I want to unblock the speaker/camera and all Ihave to do is click yes. ThennI temd to disable it again. Same with GPS
So if you can't find a device with the jardware missing or disabled you could try that. Yes, yoy do have to trust that when you click "disable" itbactually does get disabled, but then you'd have to trust the manufacturer when buying the missing hardware device too (unless you know how to open it up and check the hardware yourself, but then you would probably be able to remove the hardware yourself.
I think Graphene is better than nothing.
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