5G technology begins to expand beyond smartphones

Among the first uses of 5G to hit the consumer market is the delivery of home broadband Internet service for the ultimate cord-cutters: those looking to not just shed their cable-TV bills but abandon Internet access via wires altogether. — Reuters

The deployment of superfast 5G networks is supposed to usher in a new era for so much more than the smartphone — everything from enhanced virtual-reality video games to remote heart surgery.

That vision has been slow to come into focus, but a first wave of 5G-enabled gadgets is emerging.