Coldcard and Passport are both open source and fully off-line.

Problem with Trezor is you have to plug it into the computer. Coldcard and Passport are fully air gapped..

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Coldcard has a proprietary secure element.

No thank you.

Signing transactions by scanning QR codes off screens have also been exposed to have security flaws.

Coldcard actually uses two different third-party, known elements, and overall there is more risk plugging your signing device into a computer than using psbt / chip transfer/ QR codes.

Personally, I don’t want my signing device to touch the computer. Some people might be more likely to lose their seeds, so a device like Jade or BitKey might be ideal.

Ultimately I think all the devices we have talked about are very secure, and it is just a matter of preference.

“The COLDCARD Mk4, unlike its predecessors and other products like it on the market, has two Secure Elements (SE) : Microchip’s ATECC608B (which we will refer to as SE1) and Maxim’s DS28C36B (referred to as SE2)”

https://blog.coinkite.com/understanding-mk4-security-model/

AFAIK there is no such thing as an open source SE.