Many mobile phones and SBC don’t come with an audio jack at all, and sometimes the microphone is sold with a Micro USB cable apparently to be used with GoPro Hero cameras, but I’m not sure why since the microphone are so close to each other… Click to Enlarge If you get the wrong version, it’s not ideal, but fixable with TRRSTRS adapter. Some recent computers rely on the same TRRS jack as found on phones. Then I found out computers were typically using a 3-contact TRS jack instead ( Wikipedia).
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So that should mean both L and R signals are mixed into a single mono microphone input. The answer is Quora appears to be incorrect, as while two contacts are used for stereo output, only one contact is used for microphone input, and the other is for GND. Good at least we know stereo audio should be supported on smartphones via the 3.5mm audio jack.
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Your android phone uses a form of socket (TRRS) that can accept up to 2 channels of sound input (stereo sound from a microphone) and 2 channels of stereo output to headphones. I supposed it was because of different connectors, but I was not sure and found the starting point of the answer on Quora: If you click on the GearBest link, you’ll find there’s both a “mobile phone ” version and a “PC” version.
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Uni-directional stereo condenser microphone.There’s not much in the way of specifications: But I’ve come across a potential even lower-cost option with a tiny stereo microphone that connected to the 3.5mm audio jack on your phone or computer and sells for a couple of dollars ($2-$5) on sites like Aliexpress ($2.15) or GearBest. We previously wrote about the possibility of using Sony PS3 Eye camera as an inexpensive 4-mic array as at the time (August 2019) it sold for $7.5, and can still be found for $13 on Amazon.