Not looking for me personally, so leaving the specs/features open, and generally interested in what people might recommend.
Imo there’s almost always some surprising budget phones floating around to learn about. Only condition I might add is that preferably they’re from 2022-2023, and if not, mention their release year to help know its version/update situation.
Get a previous gen / 2 gen Pixel. They are often on sale especially this time of the year.
Pixel 6a was on sale for about $299CAD during Black Friday.
Remember seeing this mentioned in another thread and ngl I was surprised to see it (and then not surprised that they were sold out some places, lol).
Pixel 7a was only around $350