If you’re a big fan of the iphone,  you probably are aware of the current news and event about it. Here in the Philippines, Apple’s Iphone was officially released and distributed by Globe Telecoms last August 22, 2008.

By default though, the iphone 3G has limitations being locked to the local provider of course. Because of that you may feel that there is a certain limitation to what the iphone 3G can do… aside from the obvious that you can’t use a different telco sim card.

So if you don’t feel like you’re getting all you can from the iPhone App Store and other perks of the iPhone and iPod touch 2.0 software, you may want to ‘open-line’ the phone yourself.

The ‘process’ for unlocking the iphone is called ‘Jailbreaking’. Though ‘jailbreak’ is for Mac users, most of us (well, I assume) are PC and Windows users. There is an equivalent application for jailbreakinig an Iphone on a Windows box.. That is WINPWN.

Here’s how to unlock / jailbreak your iphone/itouch:

What You’ll need:

Before you get started, make sure you have the following:

• An iPhone or iPod touch running either the 2.0 software
• Winpwn dowload and installed on your computer
• A Windows machine. If you want to jailbreak on a Mac, check out how to jailbreak your iPhone 2.0 with the PwnageTool.

You’ll also need the iPhone or iPod touch 2.0 software update files. You can find the 3G version of iPhone 2.0 here, or grab the 2G software update here .

Lifehacker has a post about a step-by-step procedure on at how to jailbreak your iPhone or iPod touch using Winpwn.  Check that out for complete details.