Today’s mobile news roundup features the Nokia Lumia line topping sales charts, Apple banking on wireless charging for future products, Android leading in Chinese market and more mobile news.

Nokia saved by Lumia line

Though the first day sale of the Nokia Lumia 900 was quite embarrassing because so many retailers were closed for Easter Sunday, it was a hit on Amazon’s online store.  On Sunday afternoon, it was already the fifth most in-demand phone, and on Monday it managed to top the sales chart with the black version at the number one spot and the cyan version at number three.  Today, the Nokia Lumia takes the number one and two spot in Amazon’s sales chart.  Reports are saying that this is a good sign for the Finnish company in their hopes of making a US comeback.

Apple’s iPhone 5 to cater wireless charging

Apple filed a patent titled “Active Electronic Media Device Packaging,” which is described as “active packaging for supplying power, data, or both power and data to an electronic media device while the device is housed within the active packaging is provided.

“The active packaging may include one or more electrical traces in-molded or printed onto the packaging that couple to a suitable connector on the device. Power may also be provided via one or more wireless power techniques. Multiple active packages may be conductively stacked to transmit power, data, or both power and data to a row or stack or devices. POM sensors integrated with or attached to the device (or the active packaging itself) may detect various movement events. Coordinated and synchronized display effects may be presented while the devices are housed within the active packaging.”

From my understanding, future Apple devices will come in a special packaging that allows for wireless updating, as well as charging and transferring or syncing data to multiple connected devices.  So even if devices are still sealed in Apple stores, updates will be received by the devices that came in the special packaging.

And rumors about the next iPhone won’t likely subside as the days pass.  So here’s some of the new things people are hearing about/expecting from the next iPhone.  Some are saying that it will have a larger screen, will be fire-proof, will have a tear-drop design and a rubberized Bezel body, a DSLR camera, 4G/LTE, Retina Display, an A6 processor, support for wireless charging, will have a better Siri, Face Unlock, a new dock plug, can function as a universal remote, 3D UI, and the home button will be a thing of the past.  And instead of calling it the iPhone 5, Apple will call it “The New iPhone”.

Androids rule over China

Though Apple products are so popular in China that one teenager to sold his kidney for an iPhone and iPad, Android devices dominated the Chinese market last year.

According to a report from Reuters, Android had 68.4% of the smartphone OS market by the number of smartphones sold, up from 33.6% at the end of the first quarter of last year.  Android trampled all other mobile OS’s in the Chinese market as a result of sales initiatives by local mobile device makers ZTE Corp and Huawei Technologies, who sign contracts with Chinese telecoms companies to offer cheap Android handsets.

In other Android news, a blog post from Android Developers announced that they have upgraded the Android Emulator – a software tool designed for developers using Google’s dessert-themed mobile OS for building and testing apps.  The upgrade includes built-in GPU support, improved CPU performance, more hardware feature emulation and more.

The Android Developers team stated that the upgrade includes “a dramatic performance upgrade and support for a broader range of hardware features, notably sensors and multi-finger input.”