Amazon's latest and greatest Echo devices are available to pre-order right now

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Two years after the release of the first Echo, Amazon has officially announced a new version (and then some).

The new Echo costs $99, comes in six different "shells," and addresses one of the original's faults, poor audio quality, by including a dedicated woofer and tweeter inside of it.

You'll also be able to connect multiple Echos together for Sonos-like multi-room audio systems, and Amazon is encouraging this by offering a $50 discount when you buy a bundle of three.

All Echos will also be able to make free phone calls to the US, Mexico, and Canada soon, but the new one's speakers should make it the best hardware to take advantage of this feature.

Its price and feature set position the new Echo as a cheap alternative to the Google Home and the original Echo, which was being sold for nearly double the price. You get all this in a device that's physically smaller than the first generation, too.

It's also picked up some smart home specific features like coordinating between different smart home accessories when hearing a specific phrase. Saying "Alexa, good morning" for instance could turn on your lights, start a smart coffee machine, and begin a news briefing.

The Echo was already one of the most compelling smart home hubs available, but this improved intelligence makes it even better.

There's also the Echo Plus, which looks like a first-generation Echo but has an additional hub built inside to make it work directly with smart home accessories without additional hubs or gateways. It's positioned as the entry point in deciding to start a smart home, and comes bundled with a Philips Hue light bulb.

Amazon has also unveiled a $35 accessory called the Echo Connect, which sits between your landline phone jack and Echo so it can receive calls in addition to making them. For people still clinging onto a monthly landline phone plan, both the Echo and Connect would pay for themselves in under a year. Then there are Echo Buttons, which cost $20 and can be used as buzzers for different Echo-compatible quiz games.

Finally (for this line of hardware at least), there's the Echo Spot, a $129.99 option that's a cross between the Echo Dot and Echo Show. It has a 2.5 inch screen, is capable of making video calls, monitoring video feeds, and has an audio out port and Bluetooth to connect to an external speaker.

Not fit to stop there, Amazon also unveiled a new, smaller Fire TV. The new streaming box supports 4K HDR video at 60fps, the wireless AC standard, and Dolby Atmos. It's equipped with a quad-core 1.5Ghz processor to help keep the quality consistent; at $69 it also undercuts most of its competition.

Everything Amazon announced will be available by the end of the year, but you can improve your odds of getting what you want on day one by pre-ordering below.