G1 to be available unlocked?

Play.com are already showing the ‘HTC G1’ (that’s the T-Mobile G1 to the rest of us) available SIM-free, available from mid-November.  The details and pictures look right, with a prominent HTC logo on the side in lieu of the T-Mobile one,  but this seems a bit soon after the launch to be officially sanctioned…

At £599.99 you’re still better-off buying a T-Mobile unit and unlocking (if you’re into that kind of thing).  As we posted earlier, the cheapest tariff including service from T-Mobile offers the handset for £490.