Samsung introduces its new Galaxy S WiFi 4.2, an Android media player intended to deliver powerful gaming on the go, joining the Galaxy S WiFi 3.6, 4.0 and 5.0 players. The new 4.2-inch PMP is powered by a 1GHz processor with 512MB of RAM. It features the SoundAlive audio system for enhanced gaming experience. It comes pre-loaded with Need For Speed Hot Pursuit game.

Sony announced at the CES its new Walkman Z1000 series Mobile Entertainment Players running Android OS. As Sony’s first MP3 player/PMP with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, the Walkman Z player is powered by NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor and 512MB of RAM. It has an anti-reflective 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen LCD display.

Samsung is going to release in the US market its Galaxy Player 4 and Galaxy Player 5 Android-powered portable media players. Unveiled at the MWC 2011, the 4-inch and 5-inch Galaxy Players run Android 2.2 (upgradeable to Gingerbread 2.3) with Adobe Flash 10.1. They have a similar design as the company’s Galaxy S smartphone.

Samsung Galaxy S WiFi 4.0

Other than new flagship Galaxy S II smartphone and the new Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, Samsung also brings the Galaxy S WiFi 4.0 and WiFi 5.0 Android-based portable media players to the MWC 2011, to compete with Apple’s iPod touch. The former looks just like the original Galaxy S and has 4-inch Super Clear LCD touchscreen while the latter is like an enlarged Galaxy S II with a 5-inch large touchscreen display with 800×480 resolution.

Cowon is launching in Korea the new D3 plenue Android-based portable media player. The D3 runs Android 2.1 OS with a customized UI. It features a 3.7-inch 800×480 AMOLED touchscreen and built-in T-DMB tuner for receiving mobile TV broadcasting. The D3 plenue is able to handle Full HD 1080p video playback.

Creative introduces its latest Pure Wireless Entertainment Device, the ZEN Touch 2 running Android 2.1 OS. The device packs a 3.2-inch 480×320 touchscreen and a 2 Megapixel fixed focus …

Remember Samsung’s Galaxy player 50 YP-G50 Android-powered portable media player? After the break you can find Samsung’s promotion video of the player. As you may know, the Galaxy player is basically a Galaxy S phone sans the phone function. It is just like the iPod touch, getting most of the features on the Galaxy S, except the phone function, high quality camera and the big screen.

Other than the smaller 2.8-inch and 3.4-inch Android PMPs, Archos also brings the Archos 43, a 4.3-inch palm-size Android tablet/PMP that looks like a touchscreen smartphone. Packing a 1Ghz Cortex A8 CPU and graphics accelerator, like the Archos 7 and 101, the Archos 43 runs Android 2.2 Froyo. It’s 4.3-inch touchscreen has 480×854 resolution.

Archos 28

Archos introduces two new palm-sized Android tablets, the Archos 28 with 2.8-inch screen adn the 3.2-inch Archos 32. Though Archos is calling them “tablets”, I would consider them as Android-based portable media players, due to their small screen.

Samsung presents its Galaxy Player 50 (model YP-G50) Android portable media player. As reported before, Samsung is planning the Galaxy S-like YP-MB2 PMP, but the Galaxy Player 50 shown at IFA 2010 is clearly not the same as the MB2, though it does have a similar appearance.