The Vibe runs Android 4.3 Jelly Bean with a thin user interface skin from Kyocera. Most of the basics are unchanged from stock Android and many UI elements are carried over from other Kyocera devices.
Android 4.3 is the operating system aboard the Life. Kyocera has only tweaked the appearance in a minimal way, adding some of its own services here and there while retaining the basic functionality ...
With every new waterproof Hydro device, Kyocera adds incremental, but necessary improvements. But with the $49.99 on-contract Hydro Elite from Verizon, I'm glad to see Kyocera made even bigger strikes ...