According to Dukic et al. (2015), the frequencies of reading e-books and journals carried out by
smartphones for academic purposes are much lower when compared with information-sharing
activities for social networking purposes, for example, using smartphones for texting messages,
exchanging personal photos, and so on. Generally speaking, there is not much difference found
between the HKDI students and the LIS students from Hong Kong (at the University of Hong Kong)
and Japan (at the University of Tsukuba) in terms of their using smartphones for everyday needs and
learning purposes. Therefore, it is concluded that convenient access to information and satisfying
instant information needs were found to be an important factor in the popularity of mobile
technology amongst the student respondents.