Apple’s long-awaited refresh of its iPhone smartphones was announced on September 9 highlighting the expected 4.7in iPhone 6 and 5.5in iPhone 6 Plus phablet. Both phones will go on sale in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore and the UK beginning September 19. Curiously, unlike the iPhone 5S, the phones are not going to be on sale in China at launch, perhaps due to previously rumored lingering supply issues with the Plus edition.

Regardless of the reason, Apple expects the new smartphones to be its most popular phones yet, and while the company has always declared this for every iPhone since its launch in 2007, the company has not been wrong. Apple hopes that its new payments ecosystem—Apple Pay—along with updated sharing functionality across Apple devices in iOS 8 (arriving September 17) will help to lock users into the Apple ecosystem even further.

As far as accessories are concerned, it looks like the iPhone 6 is going to be a very similar device to the iPhone 5S although some new features were unveiled. Expected features, such as a wireless charging pad, were included on the Apple Watch but not the iPhone 6. Power bank retailers and suppliers may rejoice at the announcement that the iPhone 6 will have very similar battery life to the iPhone 5S.

In addition, Apple has not followed competitors in building the phone as a waterproof device, much to the expected delight of waterproof case manufacturers. Finally, despite some application developers expecting the removal of the 3.5mm audio jack entirely, headphones remain the same for this iteration as well.

An unlocked iPhone 6 will have a price range between US$650 and US$850 in the US, depending on the memory capacity (16, 64, and 128GB models). The iPhone 6 Plus will command a US$100 price premium in each case.