Murena 2 is a de-Googled Android phone with a privacy kill switch that disconnects mic and camera

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Like other phones, this most likely won’t have open source firmware.

What are you talking about? It's using e/OS

Firmware, as in the drivers that control the hardware, like the radio, the Bluetooth, the NFC, the SIM decryptor, etc.

Is there any open firmware for those modules?

More or less, no. No hardware driver open source firmware exists for anything you'd want to buy

But if you're interested in reading is excellent, please see these references

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicant_(operating_system)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OsmocomBB

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_mobile_phones

Some architectures like the pine phone, and the librim 5 try to isolate the proprietary blob so they have minimal collateral damage when they're exploited.