I have Verizon and I wanna get a new phone, I want the blackberry storm, I have an envy touch right now, if I were to buy one off ebay considering it is a smart phone would i have to bring it into verizon or what is the way to go about doing this? Could I just do the *228 thing to activate it?

The reason I wanna do it, is because 1. I want a smartphone, 2. I don't wanna pay a lot for an iPhone that I would probably break at some point.