Xbox 360 Wireless Headset

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Xbox 360 Wireless Headset

The Xbox 360 Wireless Headset is a wireless headset designed for the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live manufactured by Microsoft. It can be used for in game voice chat, private chat, audio for video chat and in game voice recognition. You can use up to four wireless headsets simultaneously on on a single Xbox 360. The headset fits over either ear and comes with two sizes of removable ear grips for a better fit. It uses 2.4 GHz radio technology the same as the Xbox 360 Wireless Controller so it will work within 30 feet of the console. You can have up to eight hours of battery life per charge, with an AC wall adapter for recharging. The headset can be used with or without a controller. The headset also produces various beeps to signal different actions and give messages to the user.

1 Features
2 Beeps
3 Issues
4 Current prices
5 External Links

[edit] Features

Volume up button = Increases volume one level by one knotch when pressed down once, continuously increases volume when pressed and held down.
Volume down button = decreases volume one level by one knotch when pressed down once, continuously decreases volume when pressed and held down.
Power on/off / Mute button = Turns headset on or off when held down for aproximately 2/3 seconds / mutes headset microphone when briefly pressed once.
Connect Button = Connects to the nearest Xbox 360 when the console's connect button and the headset's connect button are pressed within 20 seconds of each other.
AC socket = Used to charge the headset when it is connected to the included AC adapter.
4 LED's = Used to signal which quadrant in the consoles ring of light the headset is connected to, also when charging the LED's flash in sequence and when fully charged the LED's flash simultaneously.

[edit] Beeps

This is a key to the various beeps the headset produces from the speaker and what they mean:

2 beeps = 30 minutes of battery life remaining
3 beeps = 5 minutes of battery life remaing
Single beep every 10 seconds = Mute is actived
High pitch beep followed a low pitch beep = When mute is activated
Low pitch beep followed a High pitch beep = When mute is deactivated
3 very fast consecutive beeps increasing in pitch = When headset is turned on
3 very fast consecutive beeps decreasing in pitch = When headset is turned off
Single high pitch beep = Volume increased
Single low pitch beep = Volume decreased

[edit] Issues

The headset has problems that Microsoft has not yet reported. Some of the issues are, it won't sync with the Xbox 360 original controller causing the headset to only sync with players 2 through 4. Another problem reported is that the synchronization drops out during game play.[1]