People "over there" call an electret mic a condenser mic.
I have two very high quality and very expensive Audio-Technica "studio" mics. On the box it says "phantom powered" but in the owners manual its says "electret condenser".
As I think we all know, a condensor mike and an electret one are quite different things - something the advertisers don't seem capable of understanding.
I went to a guys house once (delivering a TV or something), and he had a really nice grand piano - which was gold plated internally - and he was a pretty impressive pianist (he actually runs a chip shop!).
Anyway, he wanted to record himself playing - so he went to his local music shop and asked for what he needed. So they sold him a nice condensor mike, a mike stand, an HDD based recorder/mixer, plus a plug-in CD-Writer, so he could copy from master to a CD.
All he really wanted was a cassette recorder
, or better still one of thoe portable Zoom etc. handheld audio recorders - but it might have been slightly before that?. Anyway, the music shop obviously decided to scam him for as much money as they could.
Basically he hadn't got a clue what to do with it - and of course he originally couldn't record anything with it because of the condensor mike - although he did eventually manage to turn the phantom power ON, it was down about four menu levels!. He's recorded himself playing, and his daughter singing (she was AMAZING!) - and he wanted to know how to adjust the relevent levels - I pointed out he couldn't, as it was recorded in one take on a single track with a single mike.
He asked me if I could show him how to work it? - but I didn't have time - so I offered him the services of my daughter (who was about 13, a pianist, bassist, singer etc, a qualified recording engineer, and all round smart arse!). So I dropped her off (pimped her out!!) and went shopping at the Supermarket - she made herself some cash from teaching him how to work it, and had a play on his golden piano.
The point of this ramble, is that the differences between condensor and electret can be
VERY critical.