With High Hopes For Android Tablets, Lenovo Probes Singapore App Preference

Lenovo recently surveyed about 400 Singaporean Android users in an effort to find out their application preferences. The results of the research are interesting, indicating that Singaporeans prefer entertainment and productivity apps over ones for news or business purposes.

What are your 3 favorite types of Android applications?

What type of application have you paid the most for?

The survey also asked users how much they were willing to pay for a great Android application. Here the results were not quite so clear, with 235 respondents answering less that $2, but 99 respondents saying they would pay more than $3.

How much are you willing to pay for a great application?

For those of you who may not be aware, Lenovo is making a pretty big push in the tablet space, aiming to ship between 1.5 and 2 million tablet PCs this year. The company just became the third-largest PC brand during the second quarter, surpassing Taiwan’s Acer which slipped a spot. On a related note, former Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci has just been hired as a consultant by none other than Lenovo for its worldwide consumer business.

But can the company’s success translate to its tablet business as well? The country general manager of Lenovo Singapore noted that working to develop good applications is an important part of this process:

IdeaPad Tablet K1