Browser

The badge includes a minimal text browser that fetches a web page over Wi-Fi and shows its main readable content as scrollable text. It strips away navigation, ads, sidebars, scripts and styling, keeping the article body. Open it from Tools → Browser.

It needs an active Wi-Fi connection (see Wi-Fi & time). When offline, the browser shows a message pointing to the Wi-Fi settings.

Home screen

Opening Browser shows the bookmarks list. The first entry is Open webpage; the rest are your saved bookmarks.

• Y opens the selected entry.
• Open webpage prompts for a URL (pre-filled with https://) and loads it.
• 3 on a bookmark opens a menu with Delete bookmark.
• N leaves the browser.

Reading a page

While a page is shown, the footer displays the current URL (or, when a link is selected, that link’s target).

• 2 / 8 scroll up and down.
• 4 / 6 select the previous / next interactive element: an in-page link, a form checkbox, or a submit control. The selection is highlighted and scrolled into view.
• Y activates the selection: it follows a link, toggles a checkbox, or submits a form. With nothing selected, Y opens the full links list.
• N (short) goes back to the previous page; on the first page it returns to the bookmarks list.
• N (long press) leaves the browser.
• 3 opens the context menu:
  • Links — the numbered list of links on the page.
  • View source — show the page’s raw HTML, unrendered.
  • View full page / View readable — toggle the content filter: full page keeps every block, readable shows only the extracted main content.
  • Bookmark — save the current page (hidden once it is bookmarked).

In-page links are shown as underlined text (the link’s label, like a web browser). Bold text is rendered heavier and struck-through text with a line; italics are shown as plain text. Form checkboxes render as [ ] / [x] and the submit control as [>].

To open a different page, press N back to the bookmarks list and choose Open webpage.

Bookmarks

Bookmarks are saved on the device and persist across reboots. Add the current page with Bookmark in the page context menu; remove one with 3 → Delete bookmark on the home screen.

Source selection

The browser extracts the requested page’s main content by text density. When the page advertises an AMP variant (a lighter version of the same article), that variant is used instead. If little readable text can be extracted, the page’s title and description are shown as a summary card.

Captive portal login

Many public Wi-Fi hotspots require a login on a portal page (an “I agree” or “Connect” button) before granting internet access.

• After the badge joins a Wi-Fi network it silently checks for a captive portal. When one is detected and the device is unlocked, a “Captive portal found. Log in now?” prompt appears: Y opens the browser on the portal page, N dismisses it.
• The Captive portal login entry also appears on the Browser home screen while a portal is detected (it is hidden on normal networks).
• The portal page renders with its accept form inline. Select the terms checkbox with 4 / 6, toggle it with Y, then select the [>] submit control and press Y to send the form and gain access.
• Portals that use a plain link to connect work via the in-page links.

Supported portal forms are limited to a submit button plus optional checkboxes (terms acceptance). Portals that need typed input (voucher, e-mail) or that build their form with JavaScript are not supported.

Local HTML files

In the file explorer (Files), opening a .html or .htm file renders it with the same reader engine: tags are stripped and the readable text is shown scrollable. In-page links and accept-style forms are interactive, selected with 4 / 6 and activated with Y, just like a remote page.

Limitations

The browser renders text only. It does not run JavaScript or apply CSS, and it does not handle media. Accept-style forms (checkboxes plus a submit button) are interactive; forms that need typed input (search boxes, e-mail, passwords) are not. Pages that build their content with JavaScript show only their summary card or a “no readable content” notice. Non-text responses show a content-type notice; plain-text responses are shown as-is. Very large pages are scanned up to a fixed limit and then truncated.