Huawei is planning to launch a Daydream-compatible phone later this year. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, the company’s CEO, Richard Yu said that the company is pushing further into new technologies like VR, and plans to launch a smartphone compatible with the VR platform this fall. During the unveiling of Daydream, Google had said that the platform requires certain basic hardware requirements that a device has to fulfil for it to be ready for Daydream. Huawei is one of the companies partnering with Google to develop Daydream-compatible devices, with the others being Samsung, HTC, LG, Xiaomi, ZTE, Asus, and Alcatel.
Further, Yu added that Huawei aims to overtake Samsung and Apple with a market share of 25 percent within the next five years. He said, “We want to be the number-one smartphone maker in the world. It’s a long distance race, and we have the patience.”
Yu also said that Huawei’s partnership with Leica is a long-term alliance, and he expects the two companies to collaborate for the next five years. The partnership was announced in February, and the first Huawei phone to bear the Leica branding was unveiled in the P9 and P9 Plus. Both devices sport dual-12MP cameras with Leica SUMMARIT lenses. However, this wasn’t the first time tat Leica worked with a smartphone maker. Last year, Panasonic launched the Lumix DMC-CM1 phone with a 20MP CMOS sensor, and a 1-inch f/2.8-11 Leica lens.