Abstract: The remote video recorder for a mobile phone is an installation that includes a third generation (3G) mobile phone having a call filtering program, a video call answering program either built into the phone or in a device connected to the phone, and a memory storage device connected to the phone. When a user takes a photograph or streaming video on a mobile phone that he wishes to store on the remote video recorder, he presses a shortcut button that calls the 3G phone connected to the remote video recorder. The call filtering program limits access only to the user(s) phone. The video call answering program detects that the incoming call is for the transmission of a still photograph or video, and routes the incoming transmission to the memory device, which may be a computer, for storage.