But you'll need an accessory to do it on the former.
Siano Mobile Silicon is the latest company to be talking about bringing live digital TV to smartphones, via broadcast rather than over the mobile network.
The company is showing off several handsets running its technology at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, including iPhone and Android.
iPhone? Okay, Apple's handset doesn't have a DTV receiver built in, so Siano is showing its T1000 accessory, which receives the signal then transmits it to the iPhone via Wi-Fi.
Meanwhile, the company is also showing its chips at work in a couple of Motorola Android handsets, the MT710 TD - which is being sold by China Mobile - and the MOTOROI, which is being sold by SKT in South Korea.
"Users of both the iPhone and Android Smartphones are tech-savvy and demand a flawless user experience that combines both innovation and quality performance," says VP of marketing Ronen Jashek.
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"Streaming video over 3G networks is problematic – more often than not it provides time-shifted, pre-recorded content at lower resolutions and frame rates – and also clogs up the networks for operators, depriving them of their #1 revenue source – voice."
We have to admit to fearing for our iPhone's battery life if we ever started watching digital TV on it.
That said, Apple is unlikely to build in a DTV receiver any time soon, due to the fragmented nature of the global mobile DTV market, with different standards in different parts of the world.
With that in mind, there may be a market for the iPhone accessory. Meanwhile, DTV-equipped Android handsets look set to become more common.
