Microsoft Xbox 360 Messenger Kit - keyboard

The Xbox 360 Messenger Kit comes in that awful plastic packaging that you cut yourself trying to get into - but once you get past that initial hell, you'll find yourself with a very respectable product. The Messenger Kit includes both a chat pad & an xbox 360 headset. I should mention now however that the headset that comes with this kit is not the original headset that we are all used to. The difference with this headset is that the volume & mute ...
...the controls were located on a piece of plastic that connected to your controller, however now the controls are located half way up the wire that leads to your ear. The location of the volume & mute controls may bother those gamers who like to have the mute button at their finger tips, but you soon get used to reaching up to the wire to mute yourself - it's really not a problem. The chat pad itself connects to the bottom of your xbox 360 controller ...

Xbox_Tipster 19.01.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Microsoft Xbox 360 Messenger Kit - keyboard

Microsoft Xbox 360 Messenger Kit Keyboard This Xbox 360 Messenger kit is a very helpful product to have if you use windows messenger on Xbox Live. The keyboard if very simple to use and it makes it much quicker to write messages to other people over Xbox Live. The Keyboard its self is very durable and my one hasn't broken yet so they definitely do last. Attaching the keyboard to your Xbox 360 controller is very easy. The only disadvantage about ...

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Review of Microsoft Xbox 360 Messenger Kit - keyboard

After spending most of my time in front of a keyboard, i found text entry of any sort on a gaming console to be a tedious task. The Xbox live messenger kit is a tidy little bundle consisting of a wired headset and a neet little qwerty keyboard called a chatpad that clicks in between the 2 handles of the Xbox 360 controller. Although adding quite a chunk to the mass of the Xbox 360 controller, the chatpad is surprisingly streamline and imposes verry ...
...It contains 47 keys including independent number keys and a messenger hot key. The Letters also have 3 shift states giving a healthy collection of symbols for whatever you might need them for. It comes equipped with a jack for the wired headset and a backlight that isnt intrusive on the eyes and allows for use in dimly lit areas. It would have been nice if you could disable the backlight when its not needed because i find it puts slight dent in my ...

All4Slade 22.08.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Microsoft Xbox 360 Messenger Kit - keyboard

MSN on Xbox 360? Perfect! This ergonomically-designed device fits perfectly and neatly into the bottom of the controller, and has been designed perfectly so that it does not hinder gameplay whilst connected. MSN can be accessed as usual via the dashboard, or if you have conversations ongoing, you can press the little MSN symbol on the chatpad, and a very little translucent screen pops up during gameplay, so you can type and receive the lastest ...
...intuitive, it is a very useful tool. Unfortunately, it does take some getting used to, and sometimes the keys are unresponsive or need hard pressing to ensure that the character appears on-screen. Also unfortunate, this means that sometimes I give up and resort to signing in on my Mac and continuing gameplay. This does not affect the overall review, however - it is a fantastically designed piece of equipment and is a definite recommendation for ...

cstanley_2 22.08.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Microsoft Xbox 360 Messenger Kit - keyboard