Ok so this is kind of a long and confusing story, but i had the venus from verizon in 2008 and my contract was supposed to be up January 2009. The phone was half broken and my cousin wasn't using his env anymore and he gave it to me. I activated that phone in October of 2008 and i used it until January thinking i would be able to get a new phone. When i went to get a new phone, they told me that my contract wasn't going to be up until October of 2010 so i thought about it and i came to the conclusion that verizon created a new 2 year contract for me when i activated the env. Now, my Venus which i am using again because my env broke, is about 3/4 broken and a pain in the a*s. I was going to take it to the verizon store, but my aunt had a Blackberry storm that she wasn't using for reasons that aren't very important and she told me i could have it so i want to activate it, but i'm afraid that if i do it will start up a new contract. So will it or will it not?