For most people even in developed countries the phones in the late 90 s didn ' t have a lot of functions . Text messaging had only been introduced , and there was only one language on any phone I used . I think I had a 5110 when I first came to Cambodia it was a new model at the time . Later on , I noticed some of the locally available phones had a Chinese script option . Maybe these were always available and I just hadn ' t noticed . Anyway , in the early days , before Unicode had developed enough or been widely adapted for use on mobile devices , Cambodians would just write phonetically in roman characters , which as you can imagine was far from ideal . <| sep |> The first few times , oral . Then IR , and only IR . Much faster come up , much stronger , and lots of exquisite beautiful opioid itch .