Subject: Wireless network, maybe.
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Posted on: 2014-01-28 01:47:00 UTC

I personally always saw the Xtransceiver and its upgraded form, the Holo Caster, more as a mobile phone version of the video call devices that the Pokémon Centers use(which, inexplicably, Bulbapedia has neither a page about nor a name for), and the PC as an extension of the Poké Ball's ability to keep Pokémon stored in data form indefinitely.

The mobile phone analogues would be wireless by default, but anything wireless seems mostly to be for communication only in the Pokémon universe, instead of being multi-purpose devices like a smart phone or a personal computer, and their technology hasn't yet developed to the point where a cohesive information sharing service exists. I can see why the franchise's creators wouldn't advance it any further, though, even though the rest of the series has shown several instances of technology so advanced that it's practically magic: if they did have an Internet analogue, the Pokédex would become obsolete, and no one would want to go around catchin' em all to fill up a database that people around the world already completed piecemeal in their spare time.

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