Consumers will continue to snap up the latest gadgets in 2014, but not surprisingly, smartphones and tablets will be in more shopping carts than traditional PCs.

According to Thursday stats(Opens in a new window) from Gartner, worldwide device shipments (which cover PCs, tablets, ultramobiles, and cell phones) will reach 2.5 billion this year, up 6.9 percent from 2013. Leading the charge will be tablets, while “sales of traditional PCs will continue to hamper the overall growth of devices,” the firm estimated.

Gartner predicts that worldwide shipments of desktops and laptops will land at 276.7 million this year, down from 296.1 million last year. By 2015, that will drop even further to 263 million.

Tablets, meanwhile, will see a nice jump this year – from 195.4 million units shipped in 2013 to 270.7 million this year and 349.1 million in 2015. That will be aided by adoption of tablets in markets outside of the U.S. – and by people buying devices other than the Apple iPad.

“The adoption of tablets has been largely concentrated in the U.S., with the dominance of Apple. Market dynamics in other regions are different, as the uptake of lower cost, smaller, non-branded tablets, becomes more apparent,” Ranjit Atwal, research director at Gartner, said in a statement.

Mobile phone shipments, meanwhile, will land at about 1.895 billion this year, up from 1.807 billion in 2013 – a number that will jump to 1.952 billion by 2015. Most of the growth Gartner is seeing there is for the “lower end of the premium phone market and the higher end of the basic phone market.”

As for operating systems, Android will retain its dominance, landing on 1.171 billion devices this year and 1.358 billion by 2015. Gartner lumped all devices into one, so Windows came in No. 2, but according to Gartner, Android will dwarf Windows by 2015 with 1.358 billion worldwide shipments compared to 379.3 million. And Apple iOS/Mac OS will be nipping at Microsoft’s heels by next year with 324.5 million worldwide device shipments.