How to Choose the Best Hardware Wallet?

[Pmalek]

In addition, such previous model already considered as "Legacy products" on Trezor website. Usually there's no good reason to buy those over Safe 3, 5 or 7.

You wouldn't be able to buy them from the official website even if you wanted to. They no longer sell them there. I am pretty sure they are still being sold by resellers, though.

To initialize my Tangem cards I used one of the child SEEDs generated on my Passport Core from its master SEED according to BIP‑85 standard that Passport Core supports.

I didn't even know how many hardware wallet manufacturers support BIP-85 until recently. The list is decent. Brands like Coldcard, Jade, Bitbox, Seedsigner, Krux, and probably others support child seeds. Trezor unfortunately doesn't.

[GhostOfBitcoin]

I just follow standard safety prescriptions, like dedicated phone for crypto, no APKs, only wallet or crypto‑card apps from Play Store, all Accessibility stuff turned off, plus a few other standard Android security tweaks.

Your general security practices are all effective. However, they are only really possible for those who can dedicate a separate phone solely for wallet usage. But overall, your general security approach is truly excellent.

Nope. To initialize my Tangem cards I used one of the child SEEDs generated on my Passport Core from its master SEED according to BIP‑85 standard that Passport Core supports.

Nicee Man..

[dkbit98]

Which is safer? Bluetooth wallets (Ledger) or completely offline QR-code wallets (SafePal)?
Open source (Trezor) vs closed source (Ledger) which do you think is more acceptable when it comes to security?

I would eliminate almost all hardware wallets from your list, since they are closed source and have a bunch of issues.
Trezor Safe 5 is solid option and it's going to receive updates probably for more than a decade, unlike all other devices from your post.
Best option for me would be open source airgapped device but Trezor didn't create anything similar so far.