The BlackBerry Storm 2 is now officially available from Verizon's web site. If you're willing to sign a 2-year agreement you can pick one up for $179 which includes a $100 rebate. The month to month price without a contract will set you back $539.99.

The BlackBerry Storm 2 is a nice upgrade over the orginal Storm with the most obvious addition being WiFi. Other than WiFi the differences are incremental. It has a better build quality than the original Storm, and does come with more memory as well. With the latest software update to the original Storm, the software should be the same between the two.

Stay connected to the people, places and things that matter most with the new BlackBerry® Storm2™ 9550 smartphone. Stay entertained with V CAST Music w/Rhapsody and V CAST Video on Demand. Get more out of life, with tons of great apps available, added Wi-Fi®, next generation SurePress™ touch screen technology and a pre-installed 16GB microSD card for your multimedia files like videos and music. Stay connected, with a solid BlackBerry smartphone messaging experience – on a touch screen – including features like push delivery, instant messaging, Facebook® and MySpace® access, plus email and text communications. And have fun, with the largest BlackBerry smartphone browsing experience, a large, high-resolution screen, 3G technology and video recording capability. It’s powerful, impressive and out of the ordinary – and it’s everything you expect from a BlackBerry smartphone.