>>47098565
Nope

>>47098639

So what would be the average form of communication device a civilian might have access to?

>>47098565
Depends on the world. Dataslates may have communicators and various programs in them, and there are miniaturised communication devices as well.
On the more advanced side, AdMech operates 'manifolds' that facilitate virtual reality and mind-to-mind communication for all participants.

>>47098663
Carrier rat

>>47098565
Depend on the planet, but as a general rule:
>do the citizens of the Imperium have access
No.
It's grim, it's dark, it's 40k. Personal communication devices can be easily used for non-sanctionned talk. Are you a free-thinking heretic, anon?

>do vox-casters represent the peak of communications tech for individuals
No, micro comm-beads and integrated comm-links are a thing.

>>47098565
Depends on the Planet

>>47098759

Comm-links are generally only short range though, right?

>>47098565
I imagine most Imperial citizens write letters and speak in person, or on more tech-happy worlds have the equivalent of a texting service on their dataslate or a home vox connected via landline (both, obviously, heavily monitored for heretical keyphrases so a team can be sent to deal with them).

Honestly that's probably why most worlds use physical letters and personal contact. It's not that the tech doesn't exist, it's that perfectly innocent phrases get confused for heresy by the servitors on Channel 238 so they dopn't use the vox to ask the husband to pick up milk because they'd get gunned down for being Slaaneshi cultists for it.

>>47098687
in our Dark Heresy Game Dataslates were treated like Tablets, many of which are churned out with only one thing on them, being used as essentially paper, but an adept can use them like a proper Tablet

Your smartphone only works because someone was considerate enough to build big radio towers every couple of miles that make phone calls to each other. Certain developed planets might have that network in place, but it probably wouldn't survive an Ork or Tyranid invasion for very long. Vox casters wouldn't need that kind of infrastructure, which makes them a much better technology to use in a warzone.

>>47098869
It's only a matter of antenna, frequency and power output.

>>47098950
I liek the idea of Tataslates actually being modern tech or at least on par with a pip-boy and just held back because the average imperial citizen is too dumb to use them, and the average fabrication staff are those same citizens

>>47099129
>reciting an obscure litany of activatino starts angry birds on your dataslate.
>I don't understand what's going on, but it must be the holy machine spirits at work.

>>47099129

It's probably a mixture of things that make them less than useful. Most planets won't have the infrastructure (satellites/radio towers) to make sure you have coverage, or the education necessary for the average citizen to make full use of the devices, and even the planets wealthy enough to have those things will still have extensive censorship of communications that will severely limit what you can use your device for.

>>47098890
>pick up the milk

;)

>>47098890
>"Hey honey, could you pick up some powdered milk paste on the way home from the manufactorum? We're almost out."

>Sevitor #59650 Communications Report: Incoming... Incoming... Initiating Heretical Codeword Scan.... MILK PASTE... phrase flagged as heretical code for depraved Slanneshi ritual act involving holy seed... inquisitors dispatched... all further communications from dataslate serial #9837BXC suspended by order of Ordo Hereticus... 3km radius lockdown issued for domicile unit #500... possible mutations unconfirmed, assume all resident potentially hostile acolytes... Excommunicate Traitoris declared... initiating datawipe... lockdown extended to 50km... lockdown extended to entirety of Hive City #7... request for Exterminatus submitted to Lord High Admiral Archebee...

>>47099358
our Adept and Psyker both had one, they used a lan connection to play Regicide in their off time