Are there smartphones in Freelancer/Discovery ?

[Croft]

I'm fairly certain some form of datapad is used by Dr Sinclair during the Freelancer story, so its a safe bet to say something like a smartphone would exist. As for the transfering of information, well that is handled by the tradelanes and jumpgates acting in the same capacity as our current undersea cables.
Though its not actually detailed in the lore, I like to imagine that every tradelane disruption by pirates prevents the data being passed on to the next ring and causes hell for that particular House's data service.

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