Xbox 360 users to be able to send messages to mobiles

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Gamers could soon be able to receive alerts on their mobile phones when their friends are playing on Microsoft's Xbox 360 games console.

The software giant is working on a system which would let players on its online gaming service, Xbox Live, send instant messages to a friend's mobile.

Microsoft UK mobility business manager Jason Langridge told the BBC the system should be live within six months.

The alerts would be sent over the internet via Xbox Live and come to a mobile over the air as an instant message.

"It just pops up saying 'Dinky Dave wants to play Project Gotham Racing' with you," said Mr Langridge.

He said he could not say when the system would go live on the Xbox 360 console, but added: "It is six months or so. It is very, very near."

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[vinnieza]

What's the point though? If you;re out and you get a message like that, you can't exactly play live cause you aren't near you xbox? Unless it's for when you're not online and doing nothing?

How much woulkd it cost as well? Sending text messages to mobiles aren't free

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can you not do it free already using MSN Messenger? (i know the options there but i've never looked at it so no idea if you have to pay for it or how it works)

i spose the main aim will be for the hardcore gamer that is waiting to play against a specific person, once they get the message they can stop whatever else they're doing and get on the ole xbox. Not something that would interest me in the slighest tbh!

[vinnieza]

wouldn't interest me either

i think you need to pay for it on msn, yeah when i try it says you first need to buy mobile messages from msn:

http://join2.msn.com/?page=messenger/mm ... 83&DI=2046

[fac51]

read it on bbc news earlier and my first thought then was what's the point of that