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Using electronic products among college students, its frequency and time spent particularly during bedtime, has a serious impact on their sleep quality. (Chu, Han, & Ai, 2018) Sleep is an important basic physiological requirement of human beings, occupying one third of the length of human life. It is an active process of restoring human spirit and relieving fatigue. Moreover, it is also a basic index of evaluating human health. (Bixler, 2009) Decline of sleep quality may eventually leads to psychological stress, poor concentration and affect academic performances. This study explored phone overuse, measured by the Mobile Phone Dependence Inventory (MPDI), and its effects particularly Sleep Quality employing the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), among UIC students. Phone hereby includes all kind of electronic visual devices. Results show that Phone overuse is only mildly related to sleep deprivation (Pearson r = 0.121*), also to depression (Spearmen's r = 0.134*), psychotic personality (Pearson r = 0.180**) and neurotic personality (Pearson r = 0.173**). Results show that quite different from the literature that strong relations with poor physical health, sleep deprivation in this instance, and mental health, depression as measured, are not existing. There are significant but mild relations. Perhaps the functions of mobile devices are changing rapidly moving away from leisure to work. It is also used in teaching and learning. Positive elements of phone use may counteract its negative impact as web based social media may also be used to connect people and promote health.