I think your quite right the new storm aka oden will more than likely bury the storm, and I like you are anxious to get more info on it. However its going to take a bit more than wifi for me to be truly interested. Hopefully the new os will be a bit more stable, and the short battery life will be adressed, also Ive said this before and I'll say this again peoples provlems with the storm are operator error not the device.

Wifi battery drain? Well if its as bad as you say why would anyone want wifi?