Amazon Kindle Fire will support Android sideloading, Shipping on November 15, $199

We already gave you some details earlier, but that was before it was made official on stage in New York City by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Pricing is $199, and it's available now for pre-order with a ship date of November 15. It will include a 30-day trial of Amazon Prime which allows you to stream movies and gives you free 2-day shipping.

As far as specs go, it will have a 7-inch screen (1024 x 600) with Gorilla Glass, Wi-Fi only, 8GB of storage, and weigh 14.6 ounces. That is little heavier than the Samsung Galaxy Tab and little lighter than the Barnes & Noble Nook Color.

It will only have access to the Amazon App Store, not the Android Market, which is a letdown. Rumor has it that you will still be able to side load apps, but this is not confirmed. You won't find a camera or microphone, so there won't be any video chatting. It does have a TI OMAP 1GHz dual-core processor, so it's not completely stripped down. Last but not least, it is based on Android 2.1, but completely customized.

Amazon promises that content will be synced across all platforms for movies. You can begin watching an Amazon Prime movie on the Fire and continue on your TV if you access it from another device such as a web connected media player or Blu-ray player.

The interface is highly customized. The home screen features a series of tabs (Newstands, Books, Music, Video, Docs, Apps, Web) that grant you access to Amazon and personal content, including stored content on Amazon's Cloud Service. There is also a carousel atop the screen which resembles the iTunes album flow. They also unveiled Amazon Silk, which is the web browser that supposedly has a special technology that accelerates mobile Web browsing. It can predict browsing habits and preload favorite websites for faster browsing

It is clear this tablet really is not supposed to go against higher-end offerings from Apple and Samsung. It is more for the E-reader segment, and the Barnes & Noble Nook Color will be its biggest competitor, but it could put a dent into Apple's market share as new consumers jump into the tablet segment.