Is unlocking or jailbreaking mobile products a crime?

I'm also from the Philippines and I can say that neither of them is a crime. Doing so under contract/warranty will void the contract/warranty though.

I really don't know . I'm not into all this new technology but wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't. Don't get yourself into trouble, please.

Since you are not taking anything that's not yours but merely expanding the device's capabilities I would say that it is not a crime. It's not legally a crime here in the US but we often say something is not a crime when it is morally wrong. In the case of the phones, I don't think it's wrong since you are not taking something that does not belong to you, but just making your phone able to take advantage of applications that Apple has made the phone incapable of running. I have no idea why they limited the phone's capabilities. If jailbreaking involved using applications for free that you would normally pay for it would be a crime, legally or morally. But since it's not stealing anything I think jailbreaking, as far as I understand it, is not wrong.

As of now, not yet as far as Philippine laws are concerned. It does however void any warranty if the mobile device is tinkered with by a technician not authorized by the company to service the particular device.