That is correct, it’s been quite awhile now since UEFI became standard but almost everyone still calls it the BIOS. Although I’ve noticed the word firmware is starting to be used more as well.

I was looking into Fairphone and got sketched out, they do not really seem particularly trustworthy or competent.

For example: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24134-devices-lacking-standard-privacysecurity-patches-and-protections-arent-private

Its amazing the 9800x3d can outperform by so much even though its on a bigger node and uses significantly less power.