If the fresh smell of soldered iPhones and AT&T legal revving up its engines then no doubt you’ve at least considered hacking or even unlocking your iPhone. Here are some resources to unlock your iPhone, change your ring tones and install 3rd party Applications.

Keep in mind that the hacking and modding community is very fast paced and these guidelines could go out of date very soon so I’ll try to future proof them as much as I can.

Unlocked And Unloaded

The big craze has been the iPhone’s freedom from the devil AT&T and its confinement in hell 5 year exclusivity broken.

Luckily George Hotz, the idol of the iPhone unlocking community has devised the plans to unlock your iPhone and rock it on any GSM network. We’ve Blogged the instructions in one central post

Software unlocks

The variety of Software based iPhone unlocks is vast! Every other App practically frees your iPhone, even iTunes! Oh wait, it’s not 2009 yet. If you happen to be reading this in the future then just know that Software unlocks are virtually none in 2007.

That isn’t stopping some people, Uniquephones had one ready to go but due to legal pressure from AT&T they’ve been forced to suspend the release. George Hotz who was the first to provide a hard based unlock is working on a Software based alternative and the folks at the iPhone Dev Wiki are working on one as well.