Normally we say cellphone is a embedded device but computer is not a embedded

Normally we say cellphone is a embedded device but computer
is not a embedded system. Today cell phones have the
facility to install software. so the cell phone is embedded
or not

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Normally we say cellphone is a embedded device but computer is not a embedded system. Today cell p..

Answer / sanjeev sindhu

One line difference between embedded systems and PC is
embedded systems are made to perform certain task(s) while
PCs or Desktops(Laptops) are made to run anything on it like
audio, video, simulation, visual c++ studio, you can run any
application on PCs while you can not on embedded system.

Cell phone is embedded system because you can not install
any application on it. Few phones are capable to install
small application but not all.

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Normally we say cellphone is a embedded device but computer is not a embedded system. Today cell p..

Answer / k r md shafik

No, cellphone has facility to install other softwares but
it is not possible to change its operating software. where
as in computers we can install operating system(O.S) and
other usefull software.

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Normally we say cellphone is a embedded device but computer is not a embedded system. Today cell p..

Answer / yogesh

Any System is called as Embedded system only when
That system runs without any external help.
cell phone works like that so it is embedded device but
computer need external devices for its functionality and we
can change the operation of computer by changing parameters
etc. so computer is not embedded device.

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Normally we say cellphone is a embedded device but computer is not a embedded system. Today cell p..

Answer / newbie

Computer is not an embedded system. What are the
conceptual characteristics that differentiate a computer
and a cellphone?
Nowadays cellphone is almost like a mini computer
and so the line classifying embded or not? become unclear.
So it is best to consider it as "not an embded system" as
time goes on.

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