It looks like HTC is planning on releasing a new Android smartphone, tipped to launch in the early part of 2012, the HTC Edge will be the companies first quad core smartphone and is reported to come with a quad core 1.5GHz nVIDIA Tegra 3 processor.

According to Pocketnow, this new smartphone from HTC is supposedly come with a 4.7 inch Touchscreen display with 720p resolution. HTC Edge will feature 1GB of RAM, 32GB of internal memory, 8MP rear camera, Bluetooth 4.0 and front camera, a backlit eight-megapixel camera with 28-millimeter, f/2.2 lens and Beats Audio. Curiously, no LTE capability was mentioned specifically, though 21Mbps HSPA+ appears to be good to go, and there’s a slight possibility of Sense 4.0 being included.

It has also been rumored that HTC Edge will be the first smartphone to see the release of HTC’s content services, which include HTC Listen music store, HTC Read e-book store, and HTC Play gaming store.