Even before the devices were unveiled, details were revealed on the @Apple Twitter account, announcing the iPhone 7 before the company quickly hid all of its tweets.
The tweets confirmed that the iPhone 7 features water-resistance, stereo speakers and longer battery life. One of the images that were tweeted also appears to confirm the new 'Piano Black' color option.
The iPhone 7 has an "all-new 12MP, low-light-loving, optical-image-stabilizing, wide-color" camera. The iPhone 7 Plus has "two all-new cameras that shoot as one for high-res optical zoom at 2x".
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The new handsets will be offered with two versions of black - glossy Jet Black, Black (with a matte anodyzed finish), Gold and Rose Gold.
The Home button has been "completely redesigned" to be "more responsive, more reliable, and even customizable". The button is now pressure sensitive with a new-generation Taptic Engine that vibrates to offered feedback for inputs and notifications.
The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are, for the first time, water- and dust-resistant, compliant to the IP67 standard.
The iPhone 7 Plus has a more advanced dual-camera architecture: one has a wide-angle lens; the second has a telephoto lens with 2x optical zoom.
The front-facing camera also gets a bump from 5MP on the iPhone 6s/Plus to 7MP on the new handsets, and includes auto image stabilization.
But as predicted - and to the great frustration of many people around the world - Apple also confirmed that the new iPhones do not have a 3.5mm headphone jack. The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus will ship with wired EarPods that connect via the handsets' Lightning ports. Buyers will also get a Lightning-to-analog adaptor in the box.
Finally, Apple highlighted the performance of its new quad-core A10 Fusion processor, which it says is 120 times faster than the original iPhone. There are two high-performance cores with 40% faster processing than the A9, and two high-efficiency cores that use one-fifth of the power.
The new GPU in the latest iPhones is 240 times faster than the first-generation too, and 50% faster than the A9. Apple says it's the most powerful chip ever in a smartphone, promising "console level gaming" on the new handsets.
And despite all this fierce performance, Apple says that the new devices offer the best battery life of any iPhone - an average of 2 hours more from one charge for the iPhone 7 compared with the 6s.
Significantly - and to the delight of many - the 16GB entry-level model is no more. Instead, the three storage tiers for both devices are now 32GB, 128GB and 256GB.
The iPhone 6s and 6s Plus live on in two configurations - 32GB and 128GB - and, of course, the iPhone SE, which was introduced earlier this year, will remain on sale too.
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