Garmin International, Inc. is well known for their satellite navigation products, but their social apps? Integration with Wikipedia, Facebook and foursquare? Indeed, as “mobile lifestyles” will be their focus at Macworld | iWorld 2012 in San Francisco this Thursday through Saturday. Garmin will be showcasing a wide range of location-based apps for iOS spanning aviation, fitness, tracking treasure hunting and, of course, turn-by-turn navigation.

If you’re a regular reader of Appletell, you know we’re pretty much all fans of Navigon’s MobileNavigator GPS app. It’s pretty easy to understand when they offer us features such as a Reality Scanner and safety camera alerts, announced today. It’s even easier to understand when also announce a corresponding sale.

There’s obviously no shortage of iPhone car mounting kits out there, and you know your needs better than I do. If those include a low profile mount that disappears behind your iPhone while perfectly cradling it, then you’ll get that in the iPhone 4 Design Car Kit by NAVIGON. But if you’re looking a system that supports multiple phone designs or enhances the signal, you’re not going to find that here.

Day two of Macworld Expo 2011 has come and gone, but don’t think we haven’t noticed. In tonight’s roundup video, we discuss the lack of a keynote speaker, take a look at Navigon’s Design Car Kit, find out what a used 1st gen iPhone is worth, and head into the Black Forest to find a fairly cool iPhone clock.

The NAVIGON iPhone Car Kit is designed to easily hold the iPhone 3G, 3GS and 4 so that it will reduce driver distraction and position the iPhone for better GPS reception by fixing it to the windshield. NAVIGON wants to put the focus on the iPhone and not on seeing the cradle itself. NAVIGON has also announced that they will be using INRIX to provide more comprehensive traffic information. INRIX uses real time traffic feeds and will allow NAVIGON to give you more routing options around congested areas thanks to a 76% increase in road coverage.

Navigon’s much anticipated iPad update to MobileNavigator has made its way to the App Store with six new features in total. The app update is free to current users. v1.7.0 doesn’t just bring iPad support, it adds support for Zagat, Lane Assistant has been upgraded to Active Lane Assistant, includes Map Reporter, supports Retina Display, and more.

Within my lifetime, I’ve driven in two countries: The United States and Canada. Similarly, within my lifetime, I’ve been lost in two countries: The United States and Canada. I was without the benefit of Navigon’s MobileNavigator North America GPS app for the iPhone, but that need not be the case with you. Navigon has kindly offered us two free downloads of the North America version of their quite popular and well-reviewed MobileNavigator app, and suggested we pass them to along to you. So, we shall.

NAVIGON is offering a price reduction on all versions of MobileNavigator. Widely regarded as one of the best GPS apps available for the iPhone, NAVIGON features map material from NAVTEQ and offers numerous add-on features, such as live traffic information, 3D maps, Facebook and Twitter integration, and more. And through the end of September, you can get it all for $10.00 less than normal.

One year ago today Navigon’s Mobile Navigator debuted on the App Store. It’s arguably the best turn by turn guidance app available and the one that I consistently recommend. And it’s even easier to recommend it when they do something awesome like slash their prices by half across the board. That’s right, you can get any of Navigon’s Mobile Navigator apps or add-ins half off until August 15th.

Navigon’s MobileNavigator 1.6 is now available in the iTunes App Store, bringing with new features such as Live Weather, Clever Parking, updated NAVTEQ maps, Destination Information Display, Pedestrian Mode Voice Guidance and Enhanced Reality View Pro. Even better, for the first 12 days from launch date, MobileNavigator will be selling at the promotion price of $49.99 (regularly $79.99).