Only thing is the internals suck for what they charge.

Too much flipping stuff means it will wear out extremely quickly. I recommend a 2nd Lock style approach instead, and having dedicated arrow keys. They won't take too much space. Don't forget you'll get more buttons by having only the screen on the top, and the entire 83+ surface area on the bottom.

Oh hey, I'd been thinking of trying to compile Python on it myself, this will save me a bunch of time.

You can actually compile Python on the Android?

EDIT: I don't own an android but I'm going to try writing an output function for it. Liek the one in TI-Basic on the 84
does anyone know how many chars on a line in a python app on the android? and how many lines there are on the screen?

I don't know if you can compile (if you can, it would be complicated), but you can run scripts using an interpreter.

When held vertically, the default amount of chars per line (on the output console) is 80, unless the user resized it.

Note that at this moment, any Python you write for the android has to be compatible with Python 2.6.2

With keyboard showing:
 80 chars x 34 lines

Without keyboard showing:
 80 chars x 58 lines

Are there any good emulators I can use for free to test this?

EDIT: also how would I load the python file to it. Do i nee to run some kind of a script on it efore loading

Sorry, I don't know any emulators.  I do know that there are free ones floating around, its just that I've never gotten around to finding one and setting it up.

Loading the python file: either type it in or do some sort of transfer thing.  You don't need to do anything special to get most code to run (except graphics -- not sure how that's going to work out)

I suppose one way would be to use 'raw_input()' or something.

If you want to use the actual android input methods, try this:
# No shebang necessary.

# You need these only if you want to use the android API.
import android
droid = android.Android()

# both the title and message are optional parameters.
title = "Name"
message = "Enter your name here:"

# Creating the input
droid.dialogCreateInput(title, message)
droid.dialogSetPositiveButtonText("Submit")
droid.dialogShow()

# Getting the response
response = droid.dialogGetResponse().result["value"]

print response

This uses the default input box.

See http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/wiki/ApiReference for more info.

I did that. How do you get key inputs?

I have a simple output and ClrHome functions working now(sound familiar_)

EDIT: I forgot the code to send a python program to the android emulator. does anyone know what it is?