[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] alex_official:
My Mate 10 Pro quick review:

GREAT:

Battery: Great battery life (obviously) with the 4000mAh cell, also very fast charging (as advertised).

Display: Very good screen brightness and overall quality (very readable in direct sunlight and with sunglasses on). Very comparable with the Samsung AMOLED panels in my opinion.

Audio quality: great audio quality through the original dongle with 3.5mm headphones (I haven`t tested it with wireless ones, as I am still going "old school" on this topic). I read before that someone said that this phone has worse audio quality than an iPhone 5c...hmmm...to me it sounds clearer than my LG G6 and better through wired headphones than Galaxy S9 plus (which I had on test for a couple of weeks). So, in my opinion, the sound quality is very good, better than most phones out there (I doubt the iPhone 5c had such awesome audio quality but I didn`t test it so I won`t judge).

Design: elegant design, loving the camera strip and overall feel of the phone, fingerprint magnet of course, not a particularly huge fan of the HUAWEI branding on the front but you can`t have it all.

GOOD:

Camera: well, if I wouldn`t have had my LG G6 with a google camera port from the guys here at XDA, I would have probably rated it higher, towards great. However, on auto mode, sometimes it is on par with my G6, but in high contrast situations the dynamic range from the HDR+ processings leaves the stock Huawei algorithms behind. But the manual mode is very very good, the monochrome feature is also amazing (especially in low light) as it retains a lot of details, the HDR mode doesn`t do much from what I can see (in any case, it doesn`t get close to HDR+, but it is OK). Can`t wait to try out the special effects (water painting, light trails etc). It is a good camera, if it weren`t for the Pixel 2 XL (and now the S9 and the P20 Pro), it would have been rated higher in my book.

One thing I would like to mention here: why does everybody seem to think that the iPhone X has such a better camera than the Mate 10 Pro (talking strictly about image quality here)? I have a number of friends who own iPhone Xs and they rarely get a better picture than me. On video however, it`s best to not talk about it. Unless you have a tripod. Then the Mate 10 Pro has a fighting chance against the other big boys.

One other question: I saw on gsmarena that the front camera seems to have suspiciously similar specs as the Pixel 2 XL (8 MP, 1/3.2 sensor, 1.4 um pixel size, only the aperture differs). Can anyone confirm this? If it would be true, then I can only imagine how good the Mate 10 Pro FC would be with a google cam port.

NOT SO GOOD:

Notifications & app management: here, it seems like the much marketed NPU is doing its best to annoy users like me who like to take care themselves of what notifications to appear, what apps to use mobile data, what apps to run in background always and so on. I can`t get Whatsapp to stop showing banners, sounds and vibrations for each message no matter what. Everytime I set it to just show the icon on the status bar, it seems to work, but after I receive the first (new) message, it defaults back to showing everything (banners, sounds, vibrations, etc). Annoying! Another annoying thing is that it always stops my Pacer app to count my steps (although it does count some, but only like 10% of what I actually walk or run). I have disabled every possible restriction and enable every possible exception, but it still does this. Anyway, maybe these are not the worst niggles you can have with this EmotionUI software, but they are so basic so why can`t they fix them? That said, the battery optimizations and memory management are very good (too good, as you could read above).

All in all, I mostly love the phone, and I can live without being able to set my Whatsapp notifications the way I want to, but I honestly hope that I`ll eventually have a working google camera port on this phone, so the camera would go from good to amazing!