Is it possible to delete photos on an iPhone?

Really easy to do on Android and Windows Phone but looks like it's not possible to delete photos on an iPhone except individually. You could do this on the original iPhone...
I've tried on the device, using a Mac and Windows but the file system is read only.
Thousands of articles on web and here and none explain how to do this simple task on ios7.

You can delete photos in the Camera Roll on your iPhone either individually on the phone or all at once by connecting to your computer.
To do this connect your phone to your computer and run whatever image capture application or camera app you have. You iPhone should be recognized as a camera and the app will allow you to copy photos to your computer and delete them from the iPhone.
To delete photos that were copied to the iPhone by syncing with your computer do another sync. But before clicking on Sync or Apply deselect all the albums you want to delete. When you click on .apply or sync the albums will be deleted.

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