A new bug angers Samsung Galaxy S3 users as it inflates data usage and costing them money.

A bug in the stock browser provided with the Samsung Galaxy S3 was found and it is costing its users money, downloading more data than is required and running over data limits.

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts found out that the Galaxy S3's web browser that affects the performance over both Wi-Fi and 3G network connections. However, the problem was discovered to go deeper and potentially cost Galaxy S3 users money, as it downloads more data than it should.

The bug, the researchers explain, is found in the browser's handling of the 'scrset' HTML attribute, which allows a site to provide different-sized images to different devices. A low-end mobile phone, for example, might be given a low-resolution and heavily compressed version of a picture, while a laptop would get a higher resolution version and devices like Apple's retina-class iPad 4 would get an higher resolution version.

The Galaxy S3, however, downloads all the pictures referred to by the attribute, vastly inflating the amount of data downloaded to view the page. While this has an obvious effect on page load times, it can also result in increased bills.

Samsung Galaxy S3 features a 4.8-inch, 306ppi (pixels per inch) 1280 x 720 Super AMOLED Plus HD display, Android 4.0 (upgradable to Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean), a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor, 16GB of internal memory, and 2GB of RAM.

It also has an 8-megapixel rear camera with zero shutter lag and LED Flash, a 1.9-megapixel front camera, 1080p HD video capture (rear camera), 720p HD video capture (front-facing camera), 4G LTE radio, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC (near field communications), a microSD slot with support for up to 64GB microSD cards and a 2,100 mAh removable battery.