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Marta Gonzales said she loves her boyfriend and it isn't because he gave her an iPhone 5.

A 31-year-old undocumented immigrant from El Salvador, she described the Valentine's Day gift from her novio as one of the best she's ever recieved.

"I couldn't believe it was mine," Gonzales said, sitting on the bed in the studio apartment she shares with her father. She said her father also has a cellphone but it isn't at nice.

"It is only for making calls," she said. "Texts too."

The Gonzales' digital lifestyle is part of a growing trend, according to a study by the Pew Research Hispanic Center in March. Latinos are adopting digital technologies at rates closer, and equal, to blacks and whites. Cellphone and internet usage grew by double digits and the largest rise was among the Spanish-dominant and foreign-born Latinos.

Carmen Gonzales is a communications researcher at the USC Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism. She explained that while the rate of cellphone and internet use among undocumented immigrants is unknown, the undocumented population has strong similarities with the foreign-born, low-income, and Spanish-dominant groups.

Gonzales said she uses her phone for the same reasons other groups of Americans do. She uses it to talk to her mother and children back home. She left two young daughters when she came to Los Angeles 8 years ago. Gonzales said she had to work for a year before she could afford her first cellphone. It was a basic phone but Gonzales said she didn't care.

"I was so happy," she said.

Her daughters are 15 and 12 now. Thanks to being able to access Facebook from her phone, she gets new pictures and updates several times a day. 

Gonzales shared how she uses iPhone and Facebook.

Here's a glance at California's foreign-born Hispanic population according to Pew's Demographic Profile of Hispanics in
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Sylvia Sanchez, who is married to Gonzales' cousin, has an iPhone 4S. The 20-year-old said she goes online exclusively with her phone.

Data plans can get expensive but said it was more affordable than getting a computer. According to Pew, 65 percent of Spanish-dominant Latinos go online using a mobile device. In comparison, 81 percent of white internet users access it through a mobile device.

Listen to Sanchez about how she upgraded her smartphone.

Closing the digital divide isn't just good for phone manufacturers, however. According to the Public Policy Institute of California, 54 percent of Latinos have broadband internet access at home but the rate is 54 percent in the Spanish-dominant population. While the number has risen sharply, up from 34 percent in 2009, Latinos still lag far behind other groups. Whites use broadband internet at home at a rate of 84 percent, Asians at a rate of 76 percent.

At any rate, Gonzales is just happy to get on Facebook.

Watch Gonzales take a tour around her timeline.

A word cloud of the Pew Research Hispanic Center Study shows the frequency of topics.

(Created with IBM's Many Eyes)