I feel like this should be a no brainer but my husband isn't seeing things my way.

My husband hasn't spoken to his mom in over a year, hasn't seen her in longer. She is a narcissist and last time they spoke was heavily emotionally manipulative and pulled the whole "I'm a bad mother" sob story.

Anyway, my husband's brother (recently reconnected- the brother is about 20 years older than him and last saw them back in the 90's) told my husband today my mother in law needs a new phone.

My husband wants to go buy her a brand new one- knowing we could actually both do with new phones ourselves (we both use specialised software on our phones and our current phones struggle to support the software because they're old).

So I suggested why don't we rather get new phones for ourselves then and give her one of our old ones (replace the battery and screen cover, it's fine then for a 70 year old woman who doesn't need a super fast phone or many of its functions).

He is adamant she should get a new phone and I don't know why he even feels that's an option.

Am I right, or is he?