Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #502 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Microsoft
• Released on: 2007-09-07
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Platform: Xbox 360

Manufacturer's Description
The Xbox 360 Messenger Kit, which includes a Chatpad and Xbox 360 headset, allows users to easily chat with friends or family on Xbox LIVE and Windows-based PCs. The automatically backlit Chatpad quickly connects to any Xbox 360 controller and can be easily controlled with simple thumb strokes so users can simultaneously chat and play games with ease.

Customer Reviews

Novel but flawed
The keyboard is quite cool and novel at first, but after a few days the extra weight and bulk it added to the controller got very tiring, and it was a relief to take it out. Pulling it in and out as I needed it then just got to be a nuisance, and although I could type a lot quicker than with the controller, it was still quite limiting. On the whole I found it just got in the way too much and I used a wireless USB keyboard instead. There just seems to be so many reviews about it not getting in the way, I thought so for the first while but it adds a lot of weight and changes the shape and balance of the controller...

Messenger Kit
To put it simply, this is an awesome bit of kit. Of course, like all such peripherals of this nature, it is not an essential piece. However, that said, it does make typing so much easier. Okay, so you can use a USB keyboard instead; but seriously, who is going to drag out a keyboard and have it sat at their sides - wire trailing all over the floor - when you can have this little beauty right at your finger tips ;)

If you spend a lot of time typing messages, like me, I can only recommend this...

Enables Quick Messenging
If you use Xbox to communicate this little gadget makes it a whole load easier to send messenges. Very simple to connect and use.