The hack of the app, designed for Samsung's hot new smartphone scheduled to reach retailers on May 29, was in the XDA Forum.

Since that time, Samsung started of the app if it's running on any phone model other than the Galaxy S III.

, phones running S Voice are sending information to the servers that support the software, but the servers, which are run by Vlingo, are ignoring any information requests that don't originate from a Galaxy S III. Such requests produce a "Network Error" message on the handset.

Apparently that's relatively easy to do because data strings sent by the app to the servers contain information identifying the phone model from which they were sent.

Theoretically, those strings could be spoofed to fool the servers into thinking the data originated with a Galaxy S III. It remains to be seen if the hacker community will produce such spoofing software.