Moto g stylus 5g 2023 256/6 It is large enough, fast enough and cheap enough. It has a stylus if someone has difficulty using a touch screen. These accept SD cards and have a headphone jack. The big issue is that they have too many varieties of phones with similar names. Battery life has been an issue. These have a very good android experience.
Rino Gear plastic screen covers — These are better than the tempered glass screen protectors.
Do not buy an apple ios device. crapple. has too much vendor lockin.
Samsung — These no longer have sd cards or headphone jacks. These also make you use samsung applications which are not as good as stock android.
These slabs all look alike. Storage is now super important because every store now has their own app and they want to use a gigabyte of your storage. SD cards for photos and video is important.
Pixel — Maybe fun to play with latest android, but they fill up quick and people will be dealing with full devices and deleting apps all the time.