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 its new Cowon 3D, the world’s first 3D portable media player. It comes with a 4.8-inch large glassess-free 3D display with 800×480 resolution and offers a 3D UI. It supports Full HD 1080p video playback and provides HDMI output.

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 …

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.

Philips officially introduces its GoGear Connect Android-based portable media player. The player is a true Andorid PMP as it comes pre-installed with Google Mobile application and is able to access the Android Market …

While iPhone gets the iPod touch sibling, Samsung is launching the Yepp YP-MB2 Android portable media player joining the Galaxy S. As you can see above, Samsung just take away the Galaxy S’ phone function and make it the YP-MB2. It also looks like the iPod touch and the original iPhone (2G).

Cowon launches the new V5W portable media player with WiFi, an update to the original V5. The V5W has built-in WiFi 802.11b/g connectivity and comes with internet browser. Like the V5, the new V5W features a 4.8-inch 800×480 touchscreen display and offers HDMI output.