Logitech Cordless Mediaboard Review (PS3 Wireless Keyboard)

Logitech's Cordless Mediaboard is a confusing product. It performs marvelously. It is responsive, has a greater range than you will ever need, and the batteries seem to hold out forever. However, it is flimsy, and really doesn't feel or look like a PS3 product. It's better dressed to hang out with my Mac Book Pro, than my PS3. The lack of PlayStation buttons and styling make this seem like a PC product adapted to the PS3, rather than designed for it. We've simply come to expect more from Logitech than an serviceable product.

The Logitech Cordless Mediaboard certainly does what it is designed to do. As a wireless keyboard it works, but it lacks the polish and extras we expect from consumer electronics and videogame accessories. If it were a value priced wireless laptop keyboard, I'd be thrilled with it. But being that this is a premium priced accessory for a high end videogame console from a top tier manufacturer, I expected more.

The good news about the Cordless Mediaboard is that it works. Logitech managed to work around Sony's silly Bluetooth lock by using a USB dongle. The results are excellent. The keyboard and built in touch pad respond beautifully, and the range is much further than I can actually read letters on the screen. All of the standard PC keys are there... leaving me to wonder, "why do I need F1-F12 on a PS3 keyboard." Unfortunately NONE of the PlayStation 3 buttons are. No PS Home button, no R or L buttons, nada. While you can surf the web with it, remember that the browser was designed to use the controller buttons. While the Cordless Mediaboard does have workarounds, I have to wonder why they didn't just replace the function keys with PlayStation buttons.

The keyboard, unfortunately, feels weak and flimsy in the lap. If you sit with both feet on the ground, it's fine. The minute your legs are uneven, the keyboard bows and bends under very minimal pressure. While it may be stylish on its own, the Cordless Mediaboard looks out of place next to my PS3. Silver? Perhaps it was designed for the prototype PS3 with the boomerang controller. Black, give us black accessories, please.

The keyboard works well, it seems barebones, flimsy, and the wrong color for the price tag.