Heading to the WWDC during the first week of June? Navigon has a cheap solution for you, simply buy Navigon for Iphone 3g/3gs for an amazing $14.99. You can also buy other regions for an amazing $9.99. Even if you aren’t heading to the WWDC, you can take advantage of this buy the MyRegion app for $14.99 and additional regions for $9.99 (50% off).

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Part of the 12 days of Christmas specials and freebies, today’s (Tuesday) special is Let’s Golf for FREE.

The game is a pretty fun golf game from Gameloft, you can’t go wrong with it being free. So if you’ve got an Iphone or Ipod Touch, use this iTunes link to get it free TODAY only.

According to Apple, they’ve managed to have their 2 billionth application downloaded from their App Store. Just to stress, that’s 2 BILLION. 2,000,000,000. Two and NINE ZEROS!

There’s more than 85,000 of them in the store, and spread over the 50 million iPhone and iPod Touch customers, that works out to be an average of 40 apps per device. Sadly, it’s unknown how much money this has raised for neither Apple nor the development teams involved, but it’s sure to be a high number.
Steve Jobs was quoted by the Apple PR team as saying: “The rate of App Store downloads continues to accelerate with users downloading a staggering two billion apps in just over a year, including more than half a billion apps this quarter alone. The App Store has reinvented what you can do with a mobile handheld device, and our users are clearly loving it”.

Well done Apple. Well done.

NAVIGON AG, leading innovator in the navigation market, today announced availability of a second free update for the North American version of MobileNavigator for the iPhone. The update equips the NAVIGON app with a comprehensive set of innovative and sought after features.

The highly anticipated text-to-speech function lets the NAVIGON MobileNaviagtor announce street names in addition to turn-by-turn directions. It is the first on-board navigation app for the iPhone with this functionality. Instead of only stating “turn right”, the app informs the user to “turn right on to ‘Main Street’, enabling the driver to further concentrate on the road ahead and not become distracted looking for street signs. Continue Reading »

A little slow out of the gate, but TomTom has released it’s App at a full $99 price today in the Apple ITunes Store, below is the official UK release (no U.S. one just yet).

TomTom announces that the TomTom for iPhone navigation application can be purchased in the Apple iTunes App Store starting today.

“With TomTom for iPhone, millions of iPhone users can now benefit from the same easy-to-use and intuitive interface, turn-by-turn spoken navigation and unique routing technology that our 30 million portable navigation device users rely on every day,” said Corinne Vigreux, Managing Director of TomTom. “As the world’s leading provider of navigation solutions and digital maps, TomTom is the most natural fit for an advanced navigation application on the iPhone.” Continue Reading »

Looks like NAVIGON is addressing the minor issues with the recently release Navigon MobileNavigator for iPhone. You can now call POI’s, select which POI’s to display on the map and the all important “mute music” function when MobileNavigator is speaking. Be sure to read our in depth review we did last week here.

NAVIGON AG, the leading innovator in the navigation market, today announced the availability of a free update for its North American version of the MobileNavigator for the iPhone.

The free update adds a couple of new features and enhancements to the MobileNavigator. NAVIGON’s route planning function known from the companies PND line enables users to plan a route with different destinations ahead of time. Taking advantage of the iPhone’s own functionalities, a call POI function allows to directly call the number of a POI such as a restaurant or hotel by simply clicking on the number. It is also possible to save it to the user’s contacts. Furthermore, the update provides an optimized volume control when navigating and using the integrated iPod function of the iPhone at the same time. It also allows to decide which POIs should be displayed in the map view. Continue Reading »

Navigon is back in the North American market with their Navigon MobileNavigator for iPhone / iPhone 3GS running OS 3.0 or higher. We are quite excited to review it, the app seems to be very similar to their in car devices with a clean interface and good feature set.

One big difference with other iPhone apps is that the 1.2 gigs of maps are downloaded into your iPhone, so you do not have to pay any data charges or monthly fees to use this app or worry about cellular signal dead zones.

The North American app costs a $99 from the Apple Itunes app store and is presently on sale till August 31st 2009 for a rock bottom price of $69. There are also versions for many other countries as well, including a version for all of Europe. Continue Reading »