The BlackBerry Storm 2 is getting the complete shaft from Verizon Wireless and its fall from grace – if you could ever call it graceful – is caused largely in part to Android. Rumor has it that the BlackBerry Storm 2 will be launching on October 28th but we haven’t heard a peep about it from Verizon, although Engadget found this:

Verizon Wireless has even posted an emulator so you can play with the BlackBerry Storm 2 Emulator ahead of its launch. You probably didn’t know that… because Verizon is being totally hush hush on the Storm 2!

And this isn’t a good “hush-hush” this is a “sweep it under the rug and let the Droid take over” hush hush. But there might be a few BlackBerry fans who prefer the Storm 2 over anything else – are you out there? Can you hear me? ECHO ECHo ECho Echo echo e-c-h-o…