take something on a cell phone

[sunsunmoon]

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/02...responsive-in-stamford-high-football-stadium/
The police quickly arrested two 15-year-old boys, including one who took video of the drunk girl on his cell phone. It was the video, in fact, that tipped the high school to the girl’s whereabouts as the teens in the stadium bleachers watched her start to slip away.

Is on correctly used here? Can "with" be used instead?

 

[Barb_D]

You could use "with" but "on" sounds more natural to me. The content was on his phone.

 

[sunsunmoon]

He used the phone to take the video, so I find "with" more natural.

 

[ostap77]

He used the phone to take the video, so I find "with" more natural.

Let's decide on one thing, shall we ? Do we take video or the video?

 

[SoothingDave]

To describe the activity of using the phone to record video, you would say they "took video."

When talking about a particular recording, you would say they took THE video.

 

[Tdol]

I think on suggests more the storage of the video, while with suggests the means.

 

[Rover_KE]

Video is a perfectly normal verb, so '...he videoed the drunk girl on his cell phone' would work just fine.

Rover