Embedded is any low resource, cost-efficient computer system designed with a specific class of tasks in mind, as opposed to general computing devices like mobil

Embedded is any low resource, cost-efficient computer system designed with a specific class of tasks in mind, as opposed to general computing devices like mobile phones (which aren't embedded) or PCs or servers. On the other hand, mobile phones actually contain one or more embedded systems as their components. See, pinephone gsm modem documentation for example.