According to the findings of a survey, conducted by Zogby for enterprise software firm Sybase, the US consumers would rather use a tablet device, like the forthcoming Apple iPad, for work than for any other reason.

The survey, which questioned around 2,500 consumers about mobile device usage, found that 52.3 percent of the respondents intend buying the iPad for mobile working; followed by 48.2 percent for watching videos; 35.4 percent for gaming third; and 20 percent would use the device for showing business presentations.

Overall, the findings of the survey indicate that even though entertainment reasons may be one of the key driving forces for consumers to go in for an iPad instead of a smartphone, work-related activities, surprisingly, will actually rule the roost.

However, a noticeable snag that people looking to use the iPad for work will face would be the apparent dearth of enterprise application access to apps, with the survey indicating that, for a majority of the respondents, access to personal as well as work data continues to be deficient.

Furthermore, nearly 75 percent of the respondents said that they have access to less than 10 percent of the work-related applications; and 68 percent said that if they could access two times more information and apps on the smartphone, their productivity would increase notably.