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from san fernando valley, ca
This is a good charging base at a good price, when I was trying to find a place to put the controlers and charge them I ended up finding this charging station at Best Buy. This charger looks nice and has a red/green indicator light to tell you when your controls are ready for use but even though the lights are nice I found that they don't shut off when its done charging unless you take the controls off the charger, its kinda hard to sleep when lights are on in my case.
What's great about it: Nice station, charges fast, and easy to hook up.
What's not so great: when controls stationed on charger lights don't shut off.
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from Lakeville, MN
Its a great product combining cool led indicators with a small compact design. Although its sometimes tricky to put the controllers in the dock. other than that its a must have
What's great about it: The design and charge speed
What's not so great: you have to pay attention on putting the controller in the dock
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from new orleans, louisiana
THE GOOD NEWS: What makes this one better than all the other docks out there is the two extra usb ports on the side. If your like me then you might have other brand controllers well they probably won't fit to slide in. My madkats modern warfare controller doesn't. but with the extra usb I'm guaranted any controller or ps3 accesory will. thats what the other docks can't do. The new version I got comes with a docking port for your ps3 bluetooth headset. That you can remove and still have the two extra ports.
Now for the BAD NEWS: yes its not great quality but haven't seen any dock out there to be. And this one like the other ones I heard you have to look to slide it in to charge. Could be cheaper in price like the one I was going to get. that one was a quad charger but only could charge controllers that would fit in the slide. Another thing is the cord isn't very long so, you'll have to keep it close to where you plug it in. Other then that its not so bad news.
The reason I gave it an excellent even though it got a 4&3 was because it is the best out there and by far the most versatile out right now.
What's great about it: you have a whole lot of options to charge all kind of ps3 accesories.
What's not so great: quality and price but compared to what else is out there its on par or better.
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from VT
Works great. Built mostly of plastic, but still strong enough to not really concern me. I like the bright light on the charger that clearly shows when the controllers are fully charged by turning from red to green.
It does charge 4 controllers but only if you have 2 additional USB cables, I'd like a charger that charged 4 controllers all the same way and required no additional cables.
I'd would say though that I think it is slightly overpriced, I'd say $20 would be a better deal. Overall I am happy with it and it is probably the best charger for it's purpose that is available in my opinion.
What's great about it: charge indicator light, nice design, easy to use
What's not so great: slightly overpriced, mostly built of plastic, requires more cables to charge more than 2 controllers at the same time
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from Charlotte, NC
I bought this to charge 2 controllers and then use the 2 USB ports on the side with USB cables too charge 2 more items. I opened the box and found ONLY ONE USB port on the side. So you need to pay attention to Best Buys wording......Product images, including color, may differ from actual product appearance. You do not get any instructions with it, nothing to say what USB cable you would need. It does have a piece of paper, telling you where to go to and download what you need.
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from Anchorage Ak.
Ok, I got sick and tired of having to use up 2 of my 4 usb ports on my 80Gig PS3, as well as I got tired of the cords. They constantly kept getting in the way of other things. As well as my 2 cats thought that when the cords hung down that they would be great toys. As well as I have a 2 year old son, and any chance to grab anything in his reach he would.
I purchased this on a more or less whim. It looked good in the packaging. When I got it home and placed it on my cabinet, it looked great sitting near my PS3.
Unlike the comments that were said about the LED's going out, I have yet to have that problem. The lights change from Red (charging) to Green (charged.) They do take a bit to get used to for plugging in the controllers, especially since I have the color change controller covers I have on my 2 controllers, but even with them on the controllers still slip in nice and easy and snug.
The base has 2 extra ports on it to allow you to plug in 2 wires to charge up 2 extra controllers. The base sits firmly on the cabinet, does not tip over unless it is given force. It looks stylish, and functions well.
Even if you DO get the LED's going out problem, leaving the controllers plugged in for at least 30 minutes will give you quite a while longer of play if needed.
The price is a little high for a charging station, but then again it is worth it, at least it was for me.
What's great about it: It functions well, it looks great on the cabinet.
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from South Orange, NJ
I really like this charger! It looks great and not out of place with everything else!
It does technically charge up to four controllers simultaneously, and it can charge Sony's Bluetooth headset...BUT the headset charger takes up one of the spaces to charge a controller, and charging using more than the two obvious places is thru a simple USB connection.
Since it charges via a regular electric outlet, it frees up USB slots on the PS3 console, too.
I have had the recharger for only about a month, so I'm not sure about durability.
What's great about it: Great looks!
What's not so great: Occasionally, it takes a few tries to get a controller connected in the slot.
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