Acceptance of mobile phone by university students for their studies: an investigation applying UTAUT2 model Kleopatra Nikolopoulou 1 & Vasilis Gialamas 1 & Konstantinos Lavidas 2 Received: 18 February 2020 /Accepted: 12 March 2020/ # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020 Abstract Mobile phone is increasingly widespread among University students, while different factors can affect students’ behavior towards the use and acceptance of mobile tech- nology. One of the methods to measure these factors is the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the Behavioral Intention of University students for acceptance and use of mobile phone in their studies. The study employed the extended UTAUT2 model (Venkatesh et al. 2012) which was adapted to the Greek context. The participants were 540 students of different Universities across Greece, who completed an online ques- tionnaire. The most important predictors for students’ Behavioral Intention to use mobile phones in their studies were Habit (the strongest one), Performance Expectancy and Hedonic Motivation. The most important predictor for actual mobile phone use was Behavioral Intention. Gender, age and experience did not have any moderating effect. The findings of this study enhance the evidence on mobile phone acceptance among University students, and have implications for students’ training. Keywords Mobile phone acceptance and use . Mobile learning . UTAUT2 . University students . Greece Education and Information Technologies https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-020-10157-9 * Kleopatra Nikolopoulou klnikolop9@yahoo.gr; klnikolop@ecd.uoa.gr Vasilis Gialamas gialamasbasilis@yahoo.gr Konstantinos Lavidas Lavidas@upatras.gr 1 Department of Early Childhood Education, School of Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Navarinou 13A, 10680 Athens, Greece 2 Department of Educational Sciences and Early Childhood Education, University of Patras, Patra, Greece