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To celebrate the release of Confessions of a Shopaholic, in cinemas on the 18th February, O2 is offering up to £100 worth of shopping vouchers with the latest Nokia handsets, including the Nokia 5800.

O2 today announces that it has teamed up with Nokia to offer up to £100 of shopping vouchers with the latest Nokia Touch music phones, including the new Nokia 5800. In an exclusive partnership with Touchstone Pictures, this winter blues-busting promotion celebrates the launch of the long awaited blockbuster, Confessions of a Shopaholic. 

To ease the pressures of the credit crunch for shopaholics everywhere, O2 is offering the chance to enjoy some guilt-free retail therapy and follow in the footsteps of Confessions of a Shopaholic heroine, Rebecca Bloomwood.

The Nokia 5800 is available on various O2 post pay tariffs and comes with up to £100 worth of shopping vouchers, depending on chosen tariff. The latest Nokia Touch music phone has surround-sound stereo speakers and a high definition widescreen so you can listen to and watch your favourite music and videos with amazing quality.  The Nokia 5800 also has a 3.2 MP auto-focus camera so you will be able to take pictures of your favourite handbags, even if your budget won’t stretch that far.

The Nokia range also comes with exclusive Confessions of a Shopaholic content from O2 including animations, wallpapers and ringtones.

For those who prefer to pre-budget their shopping spend, the Nokia 5220 with its unique asymmetric design, is available on Pay & Go and comes with £10 worth of shopping vouchers. Available exclusively from O2 in red and black, the Nokia 5220 has touch music keys, crystal clear sound and 18 hours of listening time, making it a great choice for stylish music lovers.  The Nokia 5220 also holds £20 of exclusive content from the film.
 
O2’s Marketing Director, Peter Rampling says: “Giving extra value to our customers is really important. It’s simple really – we want to offer the latest and best phones to both our Pay Monthly and Pay & Go customers and we also like to offer something extra – this time in the form of high street shopping vouchers. Confessions of a Shopaholic is set to be this year’s hit for shopping lovers, so we’re extremely proud to be working with Touchstone Pictures.”

Confessions of a Shopaholic opens in cinemas on Wednesday 18th February.
In the glamorous world of New York City, Rebecca Bloomwood (ISLA FISHER) is a fun-loving girl who is really good at shopping—a little too good, perhaps. She dreams of working for her favourite fashion magazine, but can’t quite get her foot in the door—until ironically, she snags a job as an advice columnist for a financial magazine published by the same company. As her dreams are finally coming true, she goes to ever more hilarious and extreme efforts to keep her past from ruining her future.

ISLA FISHER (“Wedding Crashers”) stars in the film from producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director P.J. Hogan (“My Best Friend’s Wedding”), based on the best-selling series of books by British author Sophie Kinsella.

You can spend the vouchers at :

• Topshop
• Dorothy Perkins
• Miss Selfridge
• Wallis
• Evans
• Burton
• Topman
• Outfit

The Nokia 5800 and Nokia 5220 are available now in store and online at www.o2.co.uk. Please see the O2 website for full terms and conditions.

For further information please contact:

O2 Press Office
01753 565656 

About O2

• Telefónica O2 UK Limited is a leading communications company for consumers and businesses in the UK, with 19.1 million mobile customers and over 260,000 fixed broadband customers as at 30 September 2008. 
• Telefónica O2 UK Limited is part of Telefónica Europe plc which is a business division of Telefónica S.A. and which owns O2 in the UK, Ireland, Slovakia, Germany and the Czech Republic, and has 44.9 million customers.
• In 2006 Telefónica Europe acquired Be, the UK fixed broadband provider, and in October 2007 O2 launched its broadband service using the Be network.
• O2 is the naming rights partner of The O2, the world’s most popular music venue.
• O2 was ranked the 6th best place to work in the Best Companies to Work for 2008 List and has been awarded a three-star accreditation denoting an ’extraordinary’ company.
• O2 was launched on 1 May 2002 and now has more customers than any other UK mobile network. 
• O2’s UK mobile network covers 99% of the UK’s population.  O2’s 3G network covers over 80% of the UK population and is fully HSDPA-enabled, providing speeds of up to 1.8 MBps for customers with an HSDPA-enabled device.
• Telefónica Europe also owns 50% of the Tesco Mobile and Tchibo Mobilfunk joint venture businesses in the UK and Germany. 
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