📝 AITA for not wanting to replace my phone with an expensive tablet?

By SuspiciousMongoose98 • Score: 1 • April 27, 2025 5:37 PM


I feel like I'm losing my mind. On mobile and dyslexic. I do my best proof reading 10 mins after I post!

To preface this, 3 years ago I was a complete fool and got a 3 year contract for a Samsung Fold 4. My dad works for a phone company and gets discounts, so for the past 10years gets my phone and I pay the monthly billing. Never have I ever broken a phone, so dad stopped getting insurance etc. 3 months into my contract, I drop the stupid brick phone, open of course, and face down. Yup, just broke the most expensive phone I've ever bought.

My mother, who got the same phone did the same, so my dad had to basically take out a new mortgage to fix it. I decided I knew the reviews stated this easy break, and I decided my sausage fingers wouldn't drop it, even though I drop everything. I thought, suck it up, use the cover screen for the next 32 months, and learn to not buy such expensive stuff.

Now to our war of late. I want to buy a cheap, basic phone now my contract is up. Nothing fancy, just as long as I can watch YouTube and browse Reddit, Im all good.

I'm an artist and have a hand me down tablet from mum when she upgraded. It's a Samsung tab S6 and it does everything I need it to. I wasn't looking to upgrade it really.

My husband thinks I'm a fool to not get a new tablet instead of a phone. The main screen on my phone doesn't work, I carry about a brick of a phone for no reason lol. If I was getting a new tablet, it would have to be an upgrade or there's no point, as I'm happy with the S6. He keeps ranting that I'm better to get a great tablet, with a SIM and not have a phone at all...

I'm saying if I got a tablet like he's showing me £50+ pcm. And I'm saying not only is a tablet impractical to take calls on, that if I bought a tablet that expensive, I surely won't be taking it out and about. He says because I'm wheelchair bound, I have no excuse not to take a bulky tablet instead of a cheap phone we'd be able to replace outright.

I've stated I won't be taking all calls on speaker. He says get a smart watch... I'm like.... That's not the answer to that. Apparently I need to get decent Bluetooth headphones... I feel like face palming with the wall lol.

Id rather get a cheap smartphone and keep the S6. Apparently I'm insane.

I told him I was going to post this to aita and said the internet would say he's the AH here. He said bet... And while I began writing this. He ranted at me for 10 minutes, coming up with crazy scenarios that he said were similar to me being like this.

So Reddit.... Aita?

:edit: I wrote the wrong phone like the tool I am haha

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